Ape Quotes

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy… — Baltasar Gracian
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics… — Ann Coulter
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction… — Kirk Hammett
It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then? — Mitch Hedberg
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Langston Hughes
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of… — Jeffrey Kluger
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H. L. Mencken
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. — Desmond Morris
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if… — Steven Pinker
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes'… — John C. Reilly
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. — Jean Rostand
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of… — Donald Rumsfeld
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the… — George Santayana
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because… — Jane Smiley

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