Leaping Baboons

Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries

Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte

Leap and the net will appear. - John Burroughs

Go back a little to leap further. - John Clarke

A wounded deer leaps the highest. - Emily Dickinson

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. - Barbara Sher

Deer hunters will do anything for a buck. - Unknown

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall. - Unknown

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. - Emily Blunt

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. - Proverb

A zoo is a place of refuge where savage beasts are protected from people. - Gerald Lieberman

If you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. - Elayne Boosler

Leap year gives me extra time to reflect on how unproductive I am with extra time. - Homer Simpson

I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. - Thomas Hood

An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer. - Philip II

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs. - Elizabeth M. Thomas

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. - Ramakrishna

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller

Every leap year I like to jump. It’s a good way to get my daily exercise in every four years. - Jarod Kintz

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward. - Harvey Mackay

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. - Martin Rees

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it fro leaping and flying. - Francis Bacon

Basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus high and return the giraffes to the zoo. - Ogden Nash

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes de Mille

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. - Ernest Hemingway

Chief executives, who themselves own a few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. - T Boone Pickens

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - Unknown

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres

For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. - C S Lewis

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist; when the last elk vanishes from the hills; when the last buffalo falls on the plains; I will hunt mice, for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom. - Chief Joseph

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country. - Henry David Thoreau