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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

I wonder if evolution wasn't from ape to man, but from insane to sane. — Cameron Jace

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

If God used evolution, God came from an ape. — Ken Ham

One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape. — Frans De Waal

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

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

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

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. — Juvenal

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, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them
but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride. — William C. Bryant

[Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them. — Paul Lockhart

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape! — Abraham Cowley

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

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms ... Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority. — Paul Watson

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

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes

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

Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape. — Debasish Mridha

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

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. — Thomas More

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

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too. — Isaac Asimov

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

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

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. — Chogyam Trungpa

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

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others — Steven Erikson

Hair and hole, horn and teeth - hedgehog, walrus, ape, Josef Breuer. He — Irvin D. Yalom