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“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”— Isaac Newton
“That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.” —Lycurgus “The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.” — Huey Newton
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“Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.” — Morgan Rhodes
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker “When the wind rises, some people build walls. Others build windmills.” — Chinese proverb
“George Bush taking credit for the Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.” — Al Gore
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“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.” — Martin Heidegger
“The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.” — Genghis Khan
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, ‘This is mine’, and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“[Walls] show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbour… They can’t think what else to do.” — Frederick Taylor
“The wide world is all about you you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”— JRR Tolkien
“You have a 12-foot fence. You know what’ll happen? Thirteen-foot ladders.” — Bill Richardson
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“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” — Jim Rohn
“I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.” — Gustav Mahler
“If you keep running into the same wall over and over again, turn.” — Crystal DeLarm Clymer
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“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”—GK Chesterton
First Published: Nov 14, 2015, 06:59
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