Quotes & Sayings About Mending Fences

Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

This was the Evangelical Revival that now began to take hold on the propertied class, who, frightened by what was happening in France, were anxiously mending their fences, spiritual as well as political. To escape rationalism's horrid daughter, revolution, they were only too willing to be enfolded in the anti-intellectual embrace of Evangelicalism, even if it demanded faith and good works and a willing suspension of disbelief. — Barbara W. Tuchman