Apes Quotes

234 quotes by 174 authors

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed… — William Shakespeare
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. — Arthur Koestler
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump… — Frans de Waal
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature.… — Frans de Waal
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard
Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was… — David Letterman
Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny.… — Bob Gunton
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that… — Jane Goodall
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… — Jane Goodall
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

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