Apes Quotes

234 Apes quotes by 174 unique authors

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the… — Terry Pratchett
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING… — Terry Pratchett
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. — Mark Twain
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they… — Ben Jonson
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with… — Benjamin Disraeli
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate… — Jean Baudrillard
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching… — Tom DeLay
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which… — Carl Linnaeus
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — Unknown Author
I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans… — Michael Specter
When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little… — Jane Goodall
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Unknown Author
Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms… — Dian Fossey
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. — Ben Jonson
It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. — Estella Warren
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of… — Lynn Margulis
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and… — Raymond Chandler
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.… — Ambrose Bierce
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse — Frans De Waal

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