If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed... of great means of influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion--I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we h...ave sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said an ape as he swung by his tail To his offspring both female and male,... "From your children, my dears, In a couple of years May evolve a professor at Yale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy," And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines,... To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the libert...y to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater an...d lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens--women, workers and the members of subject races--to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the ...religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »