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

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

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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