Apes Quotes

234 quotes by 174 authors

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
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? — Steven Wright
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common… — Oscar Wilde
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with… — Terence McKenna
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
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. — Michael Crichton
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
You canâ€™t, if you canâ€™t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein

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