Good fences make good neighbors

Cultural  

1. Good neighbors respect one another's property. Good farmers, for example, maintain their fences in order to keep their livestock from wandering onto neighboring farms. This proverb appears in the poem “Mending Wall,” by Robert Frost.

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Example Sentences

Good fences make good neighbors, wrote Robert Frost.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2020

Thanks, NB As Robert Frost said, "Good fences make good neighbors."

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2011

"Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert Frost.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Good fences make good neighbors" is their motto.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James