Fence Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old fence quotes, fence sayings, and fence proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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The tradition is a fence around the law, tithes are a fence around riches, vows are a fence around abstinence, a fence around wisdom is silence.
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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
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When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
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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.
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The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
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If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
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Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.
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The wide world is all about you, you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
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There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
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A fence to wisdom is silence.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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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.
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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.
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
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If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.
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If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.
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Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.
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Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.
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Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
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Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
