Ape Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ape Believe Hard He Man
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image
“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?” “Frankly, Linda, it is exactly… — Diogenes of Mayberry Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the… — Edward Kitsis Copy Share Image
I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and… — Cari Linneaus Copy Share Image
I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe. 'Beneath the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style. — William Lashner Copy Share Image