100+ Best Fence Quotes: Exclusive Selection

The Fence can be a symbol of both protection and a true barrier to prevent yourself from growing. Inspirational fence quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Fence Quotes

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop. Van Heflin

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

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh. Aurora

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou

Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. Matt Dillon

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost

I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me. Deadmau5

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. Foxy Brown

Love your neighbor as yourself but don’t take down your fence. Carl Sandburg

It’s all kind of a big illusion the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward. Sarah McLachlan

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. Robert Fulghum

You try to you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that’s where the where the comedy is. Denis Leary

Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can’t hit the fence at 100 miles per hour. Julia Mancuso

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. Lindsey Vonn

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. Mary Butts

I was in my dad’s church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was Jesus Be a Fence Around Me. Aretha Franklin

Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost

As you ride in a steeplechase, and you’re on the horse, going quite fast, you think, That’s quite a big fence But trust the horse, and don’t give him any reason to doubt you. Victoria Pendleton

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

You can’t stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn’t work at Hadrian’s Wall. The Great Wall of China didn’t work. The Berlin Wall. James Turrell

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. Ernie J Zelinski

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They’re fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same. Vernon Wells

Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in. Shonda Rhimes

I am the Internet guy. But the reason the Onion News Empire was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now. Jeffrey Tambor

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

I own a ranch in Texas, so there’s always something to do as far as work goes, whether it’s tractor stuff or tearing down fence. Stone Cold Steve Austin

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision. Gad Saad

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. Alex Haley

In our pugilistic take no prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural. Kirsten Powers

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t come out and those outside don’t want to get in. Arthur Brisbane

I’m the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I’ve never been on that side of the fence. Diana Penty

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. Benjamin Carson

With training for T20, I try to clear the fence a lot. Steve Smith

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. 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. Robert Fulghum

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy. Mariette Hartley

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just wanted to experience what it felt like on the other side of the fence. As we all know, the heels have the most fun out there in the ring. Ricky Steamboat

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

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence. Eoin Morgan

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don’t they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. Dennis Miller

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

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. Texas Bix Bender

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! Alexander Herzen

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence. Henry A. Kissinger

You must have been going very fast. I was, until I hit the fence. Anthony Horowitz

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Morrie Schwartz

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it. Arthur Baer

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. Richard Llewellyn

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom. Bob Hawke

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

If fences don’t work, why is there one around the White House? Charles Krauthammer

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. David Lloyd George

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence and then go over and catch it. Dick Francis

A fence to wisdom is silence. Rabbi Akiva

Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it. Arthur Baer

Fences are made for those who cannot fly. Elbert Hubbard

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

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority. Felix Frankfurter

I like to take pictures of lots of things people such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. Lacey Chabert

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors. Felix Frankfurter

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe

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

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they’ve taken aerial shots. They’ve gotten my address and put it on the Internet. Steven Tyler

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence. Henry A. Kissinger

Someone’s always going to come down on the side of the fence. Morgan Freeman

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? Jesse Helms

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. Erich Maria Remarque

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. Julie Krone

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. Kevin Spacey

And I’ve found that since you can’t electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer’s eyes. Laini Taylor

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. Vanna Bonta

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did Fences. When you train, you can do anything. Marlon Wayans

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. Byron Dorgan

Someone’s always going to come down on the side of the fence. Morgan Freeman

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. Reinhold Niebuhr

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Morrie Schwartz

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

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. Quincy Jones

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. Charles Schumer

A fence to wisdom is silence. Rabbi Akiva

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Johnny Cash

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

In baseball you hit your home run over the right field fence, the left field fence, the center field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. Ken Harrelson

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. Robert Ardrey

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. Sam Shepard

Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. Silvan Shalom

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. Saddam Hussein

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. Phillip Noyce

In a world without fences, who needs Gates? Scott McNealy

The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember. There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. Mary Anne Radmacher