Top 212 Ape Quotes & Sayings

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

As kids, we want to ape our parents.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.

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

Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

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

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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

I'm just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.

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

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

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

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

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

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

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 popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

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

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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

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

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

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

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

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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

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

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

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.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know?

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

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

The devil is God's ape!

It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.

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

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

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

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

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

Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.

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

Just being an ape is a workout.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.