quotations about apes
am i nothing more than an upright ape?
built in defenses,
heartbeat increases
an ape with shame,
and an ego to match
ON BROKEN WINGS
"Six Hundred Cubic Centimeters"
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers beside.
ROBERT ARDREY
African Genesis
Cunning to wise, is an ape to a man.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
Your poor Ape was a prince and he, poor thing,
Picklock'd a faery's boudoir--now no king,
But ape--so pray your highness stay awhile;
'Tis sooth indeed, we know it to our sorrow--
Persist and you may be an ape tomorrow.
JOHN KEATS
"When they were come unto the Faery's Court"
Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an "ape legacy" that humans are doomed to live by.
STEVEN PINKER
How the Mind Works
An old ape has an old eye.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
It is a trite proverb that an ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
ERASMUS
Praise of Folly
Though he endeavour all he can,
An ape will never be a man.
GEORGE WITHER
First Lottery
An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet,
Tho' they be clad in silk and scarlet.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
And the clothes that were draped
Was all that told man from ape
XTC
"Sacrificial Bonfire"