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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• 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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• The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Creativity, Acceptance, Rose

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• Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Civilization, People, Defined

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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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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• 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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• Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiring, Moving, Swings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 23, 2012

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

  Texas Bix Bender

  Wire, Barbs, Folks

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• A fence to wisdom is silence.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Silence

  Pirkei Avot, 3:17,

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  They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Native American, Environmental

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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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• 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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• In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

  Scott McNealy

  Needs, World, Computer

  "Javaman: The Adventures of Scott McNealy. Today's Episode: His Fight to Save the World Wide Web from the Evil Empire" by Brent Schlender, money.cnn.com. October 13, 1997.

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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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• Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Terror

  Public radio, August 31, 2004.

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

  John Locke

  Education, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 88 (1693)

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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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• Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

  Gracie Allen

  Feet, Ears, Able

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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