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It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
— Spider Robinson
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
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
— Umberto Eco
A carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.
— Douglas Adams
P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.
— Maureen Corrigan
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
— H.L. Mencken
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
Man is an ape with possibilities.
— Roy Chapman Andrews
There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.
— Hunter S. Thompson
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
— Helena Bonham Carter
You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.
— John Steiner
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
— Ben Jonson
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
— Desmond Morris
Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape.
— Evelyn Waugh
It's testosterone," Sandra explained. "Too much, the guy's an ape. Too little, he's an ant.
— Haydn Wilks
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
So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them
but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride. — William C. Bryant
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It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
— Sugata Mitra
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
— Berkeley Breathed
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
— Ambrose Bierce
Just being an ape is a workout.
— Andy Serkis
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
— Tracy Morgan
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
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
— J. Tillman
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
— Terry Pratchett
Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
— Joan Crawford
I am an ape forced to play the lion.
— Gregory The Great
Man is more ape than many of the apes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
— Gary Oldman
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
— Publilius Syrus
It is absurd to ape our betters.
— Aesop
But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
— Emily Bronte
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
— William Penn
We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
— Rick Bayan
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
— Laurence Olivier
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
— John Philip Sousa
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
— Robert E. Howard
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
— Arthur Koestler
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.
— Malcolm Rifkind
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
— Mark Rowlands
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
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE.
— Guy Kawasaki
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.
— Mikhail Turovsky
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
— John Stuart Mill
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
— Louise Leakey
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
— H.L. Mencken
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
— William Lashner
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
— Sue Townsend
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.
— G.K. Chesterton
His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..
— James Joyce
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
the death of that ape. She was wearing a light blue dress
— Sergio Rodrigues
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
— Thomas Huxley
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
— Terry Pratchett
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
The devil is God's ape!
— Martin Luther
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
— Quintus Ennius
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
— Langston Hughes
I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
— Gregory Keyes
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .
— James Branch Cabell
You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What - are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?
— Cherise Sinclair
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
— Jerome Lawrence
What an ugly beast is 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
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.[The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] — George Herbert
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
— V.S. Ramachandran
It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
— Flannery O'Connor
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
— Aldous Huxley
A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
— Paul Scofield
It was heartbreaking to see old Ossis trying to ape the thinking of Wessis, trying to master the lingo of capitalist self-promotion.
— Jonathan Franzen
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
— William Tenn
I never knew my father, my mother was an ape
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.
— Yuval Noah Harari
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.
— Charles Stross
