Quotes and Sayings About Apes
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
-- Arthur Helps -
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
-- Bo Burnham -
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
-- Bruce Catton -
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
-- Charles Lyell -
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 -
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
-- Colleen Atwood -
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 -
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
-- Dana Stabenow -
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
-- Dian Fossey -
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
-- Eugene Dubois -
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 -
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
-- Frans de Waal -
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
-- Frans de Waal -
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
-- Gary Larson -
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 -
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
-- Gregory Keyes -
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 -
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
-- J. Lee Thompson -
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 -
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
-- Louise Leakey -
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.
-- Malcolm Rifkind
