The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man’s love of himself.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
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
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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
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
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
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
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
Don’t throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
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
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
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
—Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
—Hesiod (f.700 BCE) Greek Poet
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
—English Proverb
A good neighbor-a found treasure.
—Chinese Proverb
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
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, Author, Philanthropist
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.
—Ralph Nader (b.1934) American Lawyer, Consumer Activist
Love thy neighbor but keep your high.
—Unknown
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
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
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
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
We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
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
Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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