"There are one hundred and ninety-three living species……" — Desmond Morris
"There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium."
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29 Quotes by Desmond Morris
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
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Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
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We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated…
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way,…
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Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see…
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I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the…
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust…
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads…
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We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.
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It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all.…
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
— William Ralph Inge
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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