WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg wall – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Frost, Robert -- “Mending Wall” (1914) https://wist.info/frost-robert/62078/ https://wist.info/frost-robert/62078/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:26:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=62078 Good fences make good neighbors.


Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet
“Mending Wall” (1914)
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The narrator's neighbor speaking. The phrase predates Frost (and has analogs in many languages and cultures), but achieved additional currency by his use. ]]> https://wist.info/frost-robert/62078/feed/ 0 62078 Tolkien, J.R.R. -- The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, ch. 3 “Three Is Company” [Gildor, to Frodo] (1954) https://wist.info/tolkien-jrr/3883/ https://wist.info/tolkien-jrr/3883/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3883 The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.


J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, ch. 3 “Three Is Company” [Gildor, to Frodo] (1954)
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