Fence Quotes - Page 3

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

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

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.