Quotes About Fencing

#1. Trust is like a fencing foil; it's not effective unless you extend it.

Regina Scott

#2. I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play,
Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away;
Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street,
Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Kathy Reichs

#5. It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

Miyamoto Musashi

#6. We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

Henry L. Stimson

#7. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.

Felicia Day

#8. Great Representation of the Art and Use of Fencing, written by the Italian maestro Ridolfo Capo Ferro

Cary Elwes

#9. Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers.

Amit Ray

#10. Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword.

Scott Lynch

#11. I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

Ty Simpkins

#12. There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

Rick Perry

#13. Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

V.E Schwab

#14. Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life?

Michael Sattler

#15. Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus,' wrote Wiley. 'Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.

Pamela Aidan

#17. Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?

Elle Lothlorien

#18. The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard.

Stanley Goldyn

#19. Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Lisa Kleypas

#20. The fencing masters adjust your pose, your wrist, just as singing masters try to rearrange your throat and tongue, as concert masters order the notes, the cadence. I've had many masters. I hear their voices. I don't need to, anymore, but they still speak to me, through me. Always.

Kelly Gardiner

#21. I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

Rebecca Stead

#22. And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?"
Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.

Scott Westerfeld

#23. I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

Vivien Leigh

#24. He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

George Gordon Byron

#25. Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.

Robert Aickman

#26. Killing men is not like fencing. There's no room for fine touches in battle. Every second that you blade is stuck in one man's body is a second that another can use to skewer you.

Tim Stead

#27. Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

Ted Anthony Roberts

#28. The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

Moliere

#29. He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor.

Scott Westerfeld

#30. I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

Neil Diamond

#31. guard posts and triple fencing had been bolstered by cutting-edge instrumentation, including laser-beam "lattices

Douglas Preston

#32. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Tamora Pierce

#33. I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#34. Creativity is the essence of fencing.

Charles Allen

#35. Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Bryan helped me up. "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"
I shrugged. "I've never been very athletic. Not unless you count fencing."
"You made fences?

John Corwin

#37. With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

Mariel Zagunis

#38. I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

Lindsey Vonn

#39. I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to
prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe
thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Brandon Sanderson

#40. I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

Ashley Bell

#41. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Franz Kafka

#42. Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Neil Diamond

#43. I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

Brian Cox

#44. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

Herman Wouk

#45. Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.

Lynda Williams

#46. In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Thorstein Veblen

#47. I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Orla Brady

#48. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

G.K. Chesterton

#49. You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

Isla Fisher

#50. We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

Joel Salatin

#51. No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Wilkie Collins

#52. Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.

William Goldman

#53. I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts.

Debby Ryan

#54. The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

Maureen O'Hara

#55. You really should take up boxing, or fencing - "
"Fencing? What century are you from?"
" - or solving crimes."
"Are you prescribing me your company, Doctor?"
"Detective, you can read me like a book." She lifted her glass, and I clinked mine against it.

Brittany Cavallaro

#56. The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

Jeb Bush

#57. Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Patricia Briggs

#58. Chess would teach me strategy, fencing would teach me human nature and self-preservation, and dancing would teach me my body. All necessary for a well-rounded person.

Penelope Douglas

#59. I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.

Susan Juby

#60. My brother is my best friend. Usually, when I'm fencing, I can hear his voice.

Erinn Smart

#61. Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#62. We will show an example of implementing simple fencing using a fencing token. As long as a client holds the most recent token, it can access the resource.

Flavio Junqueira

#63. If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

Paul Reps

#64. Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Patrick Rothfuss

#65. Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

Kris Holden-Ried

#66. I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

Bruce Dickinson

#67. As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

Patrick Stewart

#68. People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

Lester Levenson

#69. He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

David Foster Wallace

#70. When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

James Earl Jones

#71. I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There's no reason for me to stop.

Mariel Zagunis

#72. I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

Luke Perry