Apes Quotes

234 Apes quotes by 174 unique authors

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because… — Jane Smiley
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. — Frans de Waal
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from… — Frans de Waal
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… — Robert Ardrey
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. — Terry Pratchett
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
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

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