Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Neighbors

We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

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

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian Poet, Dramatist, Satirist

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader (b.1934) American Lawyer, Consumer Activist

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

Love thy neighbor—but don’t pull down your hedge.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

A good neighbor-a found treasure.
Chinese Proverb

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

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

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.
Franklin P. Jones

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

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

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

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.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

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.
The Mahabharata Hindu Religious Text

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist

Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist

Love thy neighbor but keep your high.
Unknown

Hedges between keep friendships green.
Common Proverb

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Hesiod (f.700 BCE) Greek Poet

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

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

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