Ape Quotes

164 quotes by 122 authors

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. — Frans de Waal
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from… — Frans de Waal
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. — Terry Pratchett
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate… — Robert E. Howard
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
It is absurd to ape our betters. — Aesop
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite,… — Rudyard Kipling
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on… — Nick Cave
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange… — Robert E. Howard
And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair… — Charles Bukowski
For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and… — Peter S. Beagle
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the… — Terry Pratchett

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