Fence Quotes

• It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 02, 2016

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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

  Robert Frost

  Change, Life And Love, Advice

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• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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  Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Love Yourself, Literature

  "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".

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• The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

  Robert Fulghum

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass Is Always Greener

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• Fear is the highest fence.

  Dudley Nichols

  Fear, Highest

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• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Nature, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

  Mary Butts

  Trust, Space, Deeds

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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  There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Reading, Learning

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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• If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Your Side, Trying

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• Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

  Shonda Rhimes

  People, Boundaries, Drawing The Line

  "Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Indecision, Sneak

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.67, Penguin

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• Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Firsts, Enough

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• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  Alex Haley

  Funny, Animal, Turtles

  "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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• The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Death, Want, Foolish

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. 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

  Water, Care, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Long, Belief

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rags, Littles, Fluttering

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Humanity

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• Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Wire, Barbs, Folks

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• The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Enemy, Decided

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