A Quote by Akiva ben Joseph

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.

Akiva ben Joseph

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Wisdom Abstinence Around Fence Law Riches Silence Tradition Vows

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Akiva ben Joseph
Priest

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van

Pete Wentz

To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.

Robert Riskin

A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

Russell Hornsby

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

Nicole Krauss

Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

Jeanne Elium

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 wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

Martin Starr

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

Teresa Bloomingdale

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

Cole Porter

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.

Jerry Vines

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Emmylou Harris

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.