Apes Quotes

234 Apes quotes by 174 unique authors

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
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H. L. Mencken
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. — Desmond Morris
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if… — Steven Pinker
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes'… — John C. Reilly
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. — Jean Rostand
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of… — Donald Rumsfeld
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the… — George Santayana

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