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Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
— William Winwood Reade
We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.
— Sam Lipsyte
our distinction from the apes has brought us TV, the police, and the rituals of Valentine's Day.
— Steve W. Duck
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
— Rudyard Kipling
P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
— Jon Stewart
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
— Thomas Huxley
With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.
— Alan Bradley
But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.
— Thomas Pynchon
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
— William Shakespeare
Man is an ape with possibilities.
— Roy Chapman Andrews
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
— Alfred Doblin
ADVERSE REVERSE
Advanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weapons
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
Advanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weapons
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
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
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
— Ben Jonson
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
— Richard Dawkins
The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.
— Elaine Morgan
Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.
— Samuel Beckett
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
With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
— Leonard Maltin
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
Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.
— Terence McKenna
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
— Tracy Morgan
It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
— Estella Warren
'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
— J. Lee Thompson
Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
— Joan Crawford
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
— Publilius Syrus
Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.
— Aldous Huxley
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
— Raheel Farooq
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.
— Desmond Morris
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
— Robin A. Weiss
Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!
— Jacqueline Wilson
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
— Osbert Sitwell
It's weird ... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
— Mitch Hedberg
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
— Publilius Syrus
We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
— Rick Bayan
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
— Michael Crichton
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
— Frans De Waal
The devil is God's ape!
— Martin Luther
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
— Mick McCarthy
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
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
— Quintus Ennius
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
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
— Thomas Huxley
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
— Jacob M. Appel
I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
— Justin Cronin
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
People are bloody ignorant apes.
— Samuel Beckett
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
— Robert Anton Wilson
THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.
— Edward O. Wilson
you clever apes, smart enough to destroy everything around you, never smart enough to understand what it is you are losing in the process . . .
— Terry Pratchett
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.
— Ernest Cline
Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.
— Chris Roberson
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
— Richard Leakey
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 higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] — George Herbert
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
— Dana Stabenow
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
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
— Publilius Syrus
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
— Louise Leakey
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
— Abraham Maslow
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
— Jerome Lawrence
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
— Robert Ardrey
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It wouldn't happen ... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey
— Karl Pilkington
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
— William Tenn