Apes Quotes

234 Apes quotes by 174 unique authors

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE. — Guy Kawasaki
Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create… — Tucker Max
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles… — Frans de Waal
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. — Mikhail Turovsky
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. — William Winwood Reade
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist… — Mortimer Collins
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. — Paul Broca
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the… — Eric Temple Bell
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. — Mary McCarthy
Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes? — Zach Braff
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what… — Richard Stallman
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time,… — Unknown Author
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90… — Bob Barker
The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice… — Unknown Author
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous… — Maureen O'Sullivan
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the… — Ezra Pound
Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times… — Thomas Mullen
What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies,… — Keith Olbermann
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape — Jerome Lawrence
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes. — Desmond Morris

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