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- A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for…
- 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…
- OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
More Apes 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
- And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 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
- I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
- Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as… — Jared Diamond