Apes Quote by Desmond Morris

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

— W. S. Gilbert

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

— Ben Jonson

“The story of a briefly abundant hairless primate originating in Africa is but a footnote in the history of life, but in the history…

— Matt Ridley (Author

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the…

— Charles Lamb

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

— Andy Dunn

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

— Mick McCarthy

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

In the past, I have approximated the look of monkey fur and yak hair with human hair because it's inexpensive, and it lasts a…

— Chris March

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is…

— Richard Dawkins

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape legacy” that…

— Steven Pinker