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.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister
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.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) English Poet
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
—Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Love thy neighbor—but don’t pull down your hedge.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
—Bill Gates (b.1955) American Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
—Hesiod (f.700 BCE) Greek Poet
We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
—Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian Poet, Dramatist, Satirist
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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.
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man’s love of himself.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
—English Proverb
Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.
—Franklin P. Jones
Don’t throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
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.
—Willa Cather (1873–1947) American Novelist, Writer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
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.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.
—Ralph Nader (b.1934) American Lawyer, Consumer Activist
A good neighbor-a found treasure.
—Chinese Proverb
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 (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Love thy neighbor but keep your high.
—Unknown
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.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader