Quotes of Fence - somelinesforyou

“ Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. ”

- Queen Mary

“ Fences are made for those who cannot fly. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need. ”

- William Faulkner

“ I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. ”

- Matt Dillon

“ I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. ”

- Byron Dorgan

“ You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this.". ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”

- Mark Van Doren

“ A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ”

- John Locke

“ There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. ”

- William Penn

“ He sat on the fence so long that the iron entered into his soul. ”

- Lloyd George

“ If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. ”

- Twyla Tharp

“ Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help. ”

- Unknown

“ Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ”

- Unknown

“ The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. ”

- Ralph W. Sockman

“ A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong. ”

- Unknown

“ A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. ”

- Arthur Baer

“ Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself. ”

- Kenneth S. Davis

“ The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. ”

- William Taylor Copeland
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