Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. Laozi
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. Alexis de Tocqueville
Don't make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. Jewish Proverb
Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced. Jewish Proverb