It is absurd to ape our betters.

“They respect their betters, and fear those below them.”

— Iain Pears

Frequent the company of your betters.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Love betters what is best

— Anonymous

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

— Charlie Brooker

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of…

— Ezra Pound

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

— Orson Scott Card

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.…

— Douglas Adams

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

— J. Lee Thompson

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back…

— Raymond Chandler