A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean Inge
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Laurence Olivier
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