Apes Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go…

— Anonymous

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

— Frans de Waal

Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape,…

— Pierre Boulle

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

— William Tenn

Man is an ape with possibilities.

— Roy Chapman Andrews

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

— Joseph Addison

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

— William Hazlitt

“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.”

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

— Joan Rivers

“The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one,…

— Jeffery Deaver