APE QUOTES II

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


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


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"


And the clothes that were draped
Was all that told man from ape

XTC

"Sacrificial Bonfire"


It is a trite proverb that an ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

ERASMUS

Praise of Folly


An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet,
Tho' they be clad in silk and scarlet.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


Though he endeavour all he can,
An ape will never be a man.

GEORGE WITHER

First Lottery