Quotes about Neighbors

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

“Your neighbor is the man who needs you.”

“Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.”

“Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.”

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

“Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.”

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

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

“A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”

“Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.”

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

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

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

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

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

“When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.”

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

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

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

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

“As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

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

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

“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”