At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing - Baltasar Gracián
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H. L. Mencken
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying. - William Shakespeare
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot. - Robert E. Howard
Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape. - Debasish Mridha
Man is more ape than many of the apes. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. - Terry Pratchett
What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. - Henry Fairfield Osborn
If you do not grasp, intellectually or spiritually, the 'One' in All, you would've lived and died as your former self - ape, et all. - Fakeer Ishavardas