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Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

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

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

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

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.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

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

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

People are bloody ignorant apes.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

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

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

The devil is God's ape!

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

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.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

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

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

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

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

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

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

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.

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

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

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.

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

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

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

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.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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

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.

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.