Apes Quote by Arthur Helps Download Open image “Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.” — Arthur Helps ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Book Books Firsts Men Written
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. — Mikhail Turovsky Copy Share Image
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The uncounted days slid past while he argued with himself over the things that bothered him-problems that had made sad the soul of his breed since the first apeman had risen to self-awareness, questions never solved by full belly nor fine machinery. And the endless quiet days did no more to give him final answers than did all the soul… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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