There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest.

"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.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. 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 neighbours.”

Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.

Take pride in what you do. Remember your name is on every ‘fence’ you build. Do your best in everything, so you can look back on your work with pride.

"You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)

Unless the gods deceive my mind,
That man is forging fetters for himself.

You'll find that it's quite a natural act for a human to build a home.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

There's fence against all things except death.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.