Fence Quotes

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. (Sophia Loren)
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. View quote
John Locke
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. View quote
Alex Haley
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. View quote
Will Rogers
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. View quote
William Faulkner
A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. View quote
Duncan Hunter
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. View quote
Wim Wenders
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. View quote
Mark Twain
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. View quote
Clement Attlee
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost)
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in. View quote
Cole Porter
Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror. View quote
Tzachi Hanegbi
Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. View quote
Gracie Allen
A fence to wisdom is silence. View quote
Akiba ben Joseph
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. View quote
Robert Fulghum
I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. View quote
Edvard Munch
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up. View quote
James Hudson Taylor
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. View quote
Mary of Teck
You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence. (Anthony Horowitz)
Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I'd sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I'd rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. View quote
Debbie Macomber
... only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all. View quote
John Boyne
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
📖 Fence Proverbs