“ Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
“ So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
“ The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there — you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
“ Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. ”
- Sydney J. Harris- Copy
“ Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres! ”
- Jerry Coleman- Copy
“ Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master… Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Lease- Copy
“ In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences. ”
- Dan Miller- Copy
“ WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Even the great and good Andrew Carnegie has made his profession of faith in the matter… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ”
- Gordon R. Dickson- Copy
“ Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war … ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
“ False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ”
- Richard Burton- Copy
“ Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
“ Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it! ”
- Peter de Jager- Copy
“ Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. ”
- St. John Baptist de La Salle- Copy
“ And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors. ”
- Jeff Zurschmeide- Copy
“ For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
“ The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes. ”
- Harold B. Lee- Copy
“ May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. ”
- Maryanne Radmacher Hershey- Copy
“ To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall. ”
- Hilary Alexander- Copy
“ Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate. ”
- Tom Clancy- Copy
“ In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate. ”
- Walter V. Kaulfers- Copy
“ Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
“ Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. ”
- Jane Goodall- Copy
“ The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life. ”
- Robert Anthony Salvatore- Copy
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