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Friday, 5 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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Browse Quotations about Neighbors

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
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.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Good fences make good neighbors.
Hedges between keep friendships green.
I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8]
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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.
Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Love thy neighbor but keep your high.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
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.
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
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.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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.
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.
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.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [Matthew 22:39]
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
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.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

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