Apes Quotes - Page 5

• The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Rich, Poor

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 941, 1856.

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• Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

  Maureen O'Sullivan

  Jealous, Paws, Cheetahs

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• Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Men, Skins, Prisoner

  Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sleep, Oxymoron, Dies

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• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Children, Men, Differences

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• Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?

  Zach Braff

  Lessons, Planets

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• I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

  Richard Stallman

  Sex, Giving, Trying

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
  By the known rules of ancient liberty,
  When straight a barbarous noise environs me
  Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

  John Milton

  Dog, Owl, Age

  'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Elephants, Circus

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• The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'

  Chris Karrer

  Nice, Voice, Community

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• Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

  Will Cuppy

  Looks, Orangutans, Teach

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• 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

  Years, Knowing, Obsolete

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• The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

  Dana Stabenow

  Library, Steps

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• The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Children, Clever, Yield

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, October, 1996.

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

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Littles, Nasty

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• There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Criticism, Trying

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• 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

  Our World, May, Satisfaction

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• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Lying, Science

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.

  Kirk Hammett

  Stars, Wall, War

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• 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.

  Jane Goodall

  Unique, Years, Skeletons

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

  Brandon Boyd

  Writing, Men, Voice

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• As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Mirrors, Important Relationships

  "The Brain on Love". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Character, Men, World

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