Ape Quotes

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Harder, Average, Descended

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Hard, Descended

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Harder, Average, Descended

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac

Country, Ridiculous, Paris

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

Off, Goodness, Internet

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing, Dog, Lion

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Beauty, Happiness, Dying

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana

Human, Terrible, Irrational

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter

Him, Treat, Cause

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Book, Mirror, Looks

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perfect, Cannot, Ability

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

Often, Greatness, Order

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Deep, May

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Jane Goodall

True, Human, Brain

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps

Book, Written, Vanquished

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.
Jane Smiley

Her, Easy, Read

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz

Between, Found, Missing

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
Gary Bauer

Today, Children, Human

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
Scott Weiland

Life, Music, Write

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy

Human, Whole, Makes

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean Inge

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris

Angel, Fellow, Fallen

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
Joe Elliott

Love, Play, Why

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Laurence Olivier

Act, Mock, Mimic

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Richard Leakey

Hope, Find, Light

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
Olivia Colman

School, Laugh, Through

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield

Means, Painting, String

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

True, Spring, Far

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