Apes Quotes

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

The question is this: is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories.

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

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.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

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

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

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

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.