Ape Quotes

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

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

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

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

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

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

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

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

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

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.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

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.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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

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

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

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.

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