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Fence Quotes

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

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

"Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.733, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

"Pushing immigration reform". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2014.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.