“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die.”
Ants Marching
Remember Two Things (1993)
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Lights down, you up and die." by Dave Matthews?
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“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
According to The American Chesterton Society http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/19.htm, this quotation is actually a paraphrase by John F. Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy of a passage from The Thing (1929) in which Chesterton made reference to a fence or gate erected across a road: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." <br class="br">Misattributed
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Orders to the 57th Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gallipoli (25 April 1915); as quoted in Studies in Battle Command https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/battles.pdf by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, p. 89; also quoted in Turkey (2007) by Verity Campbell, p. 188 <br class="br">Variant translation: I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die.
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Attributed to Francis Rodman, in volume 64 of The Reader's digest (1954)
Other variants also attributed to Wynn Catlin in Kiss Me Hardy : Quotations Ancient and (Very) Modern (1982) by Roger Kilroy; and to Winston Churchill by Dick Applegate in a speech reprinted in Volume 75 of "The Carpenter" (1955)
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