Quotes about neighbors

"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them."

Aretino, Pietro on neighbors   

"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it."

Baer, Arthur on neighbors   

"Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood."

Beal, Louise on neighbors   

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [Matthew 22:39]"

Bible on neighbors   

"Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you."

Bible on neighbors   

"If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8]"

Bible on neighbors   

"Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off."

Bible on neighbors   

"A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on neighbors   

"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."

Cather, Willa on neighbors   

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on neighbors
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"Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on neighbors   

"Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence."

Confucius on neighbors
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"Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level."

Crisp, Quentin on neighbors   

"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."

Crowley, Aleister on neighbors   

"In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor."

Disraeli, Benjamin on neighbors   

"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

Douglas, Norman on neighbors   

"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on neighbors   

"Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass."

Franklin, Benjamin on neighbors
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"Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge."

Franklin, Benjamin on neighbors   

"Good fences make good neighbors."

Frost, Robert on neighbors   

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing."

Hesiod on neighbors   

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Hoffer, Eric on neighbors
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"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames."

Horace on neighbors   

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."

Horace on neighbors   

"Your neighbor is the man who needs you."

Hubbard, Elbert on neighbors   

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on neighbors
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"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"

Johnson, Lyndon B. on neighbors   

"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

Jones, Franklin P. on neighbors
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"A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up."

Kempton, Murray on neighbors   

"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."

Layton, Irving on neighbors   

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."

Locke, John on neighbors   

"This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself."

Mahabharta, The on neighbors   

"Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food."

McLaughlin, Dean on neighbors   

"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."

Nader, Ralph on neighbors   

"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss."

P'Ien, Tai Shang Kan Ying on neighbors   

"Hedges between keep friendships green."

Proverb on neighbors   

"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."

Proverb, English on neighbors   

"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."

Shue, Elisabeth on neighbors