Apes Quotes

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

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

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

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

I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

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

I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

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

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!

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

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

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

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

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

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

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

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.