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  • You bit me? (Stryker) We use what we have. (Zephyra) That’s such a girl move. (Stryker) But it works. Maybe if you fought like a girl and not a stunted baboon, you’d actually win. (Zephyra)

    Girl   Moving   Winning  
  • If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

    Thinking   Causes   Apes  
  • Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

    Kissing   Animal   Tunes  
    FaceBook post by Peter Gabriel from Nov 10, 2012
  • What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

    Success   Want   Faces  
  • The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

    Knowledge   Self   Joints  
  • I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

    Hate   Writing   Voice  
  • A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

    Zoos   Wife   Curiosity  
    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

    "Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies".
  • Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.

    Khufu   Secret   Legs  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

    Dog   Sacrifice   Order  
    The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)
  • I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

  • There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

    Years   Tunes   Baboons  
    New Pathways in Science Chapter III, Section IV The End of the World (p. 62)
  • I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

    Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
  • It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

    Dinner   Way   Sanity  
    "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.
  • I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

    Reading   Quests   Sacred  
    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

    Males   Female   Baboons  
    "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.
  • Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

    Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.33, OUP Oxford
  • What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

    Caring   Thinking   Wind  
    "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.
  • Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  • Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

    Facts   Baboons  
    Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.29, David R. Godine Publisher
  • I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

    Thinking   Want   Baboons  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

    Animal   Atheism   Cows  
    "Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.
  • Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.

    Nuts   Sky   Goddess  
  • I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.

    Morning   Khufu   Houston  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.292, Penguin UK
  • We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

    Cat   World   Strange  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

  • And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

  • At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

    Men   Race   Doubt  
    Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.201, Princeton University Press
  • Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

    "Expanded Universe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1980.
  • Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!” I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey.

    Khufu   Hands   Names  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
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