Top 10 Ape Quotes

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

Desmond Morris

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape…

Tennessee Williams

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The meaning of ape

(n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

(n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

(n.) A dupe.

(v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands Go…

Vaslav Nijinsky

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