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Ape Quotes by Douglas Adams
- 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…
- 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…
- I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There…
More Ape Quotes
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
- Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by… — Helena Bonham Carter
- What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- Conformity is the ape of harmony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man… — Carl Linnaeus
- It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
- Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling… — William Ralph Inge
- A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it… — Adolf Hitler