fence quotes

Hussein isn't just sitting on the fence; he is the fence.

-Anonymous
  Unknown US diplomat on  Jordan's King Hussein prior to making peace with Palestine. Quoted in The Times, 22  Jul.

If the fence is strong enough, I'll sit on it.

- Sir Cyril Smith
  In the Observer,15 Sep.

And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.

-A'Ghobhainn
Thistles and Roses,'OldWoman', stanzas1^2.