Top 100 Neighbour Quotes
#1. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart
John Green
#2. I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
Les Dawson
#3. Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#4. I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.
George Herbert
#5. Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.
Milton Berle
#6. we will never be truly capable of 'loving our neighbour' as long as we continue to view the people around us as commodities, capital or competition
Tristan Sherwin
#7. Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ...
Hakan Nesser
#8. Peace for thyself is the peace for thy neighbour which begins with a prayer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. By walking in his spiritual life, the Christian will experience growing in his faith, becoming a holy person, understanding more the Word of God, being able to love one's neighbour more, to do acts of mercy and experience more the light of God.
George Calleja
#10. Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
Phyllis Bottome
#12. The Publican, in that he was an extortioner, unjust and an adulterer, made it thereby manifest that he did not love his neighbour; and thou by making a god, a saviour, a deliverer, of thy filthy righteousness, dost make it appear, that thou dost not love thy God;
John Bunyan
#13. But here the Lord asks only two things of us: love for His Majesty and love for our neighbour. It is for these two virtues that we must strive, and if we attain them perfectly we are doing His will and so shall be united with Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#14. Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.
Isabella Bird
#15. The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#17. The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
African Spir
#18. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.
Mother Teresa
#19. I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.
James Anthony Froude
#21. In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil.
Samuel Richardson
#22. I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.
Helen George
#23. Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo Coelho
#24. We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#25. Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
John Cleese
#26. I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.
Dov Davidoff
#27. Pray for peace in the world and start working for it by loving your neighbour.
George Calleja
#28. Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".
Lawrence M. Krauss
#29. Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
Richard Stallman
#30. Send a solid idea to beyond this universe!
A neighbour universe will soon be existed.
Toba Beta
#31. You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,
It says so much about love and brokenness
it's perfect.
John Green
#32. I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
William Henry Vanderbilt
#34. Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".
Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.
Euripides
#35. The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.
Shane Claiborne
#36. And just as the typical neurotic is unconscious of his shadow side, so the normal individual, like the neurotic, sees his shadow in his neighbour or in the man beyond the great divide.
C. G. Jung
#37. My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Demosthenes
#39. Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.
Amy-Jill Levine
#40. It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
William Penn
#42. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.
Tommy Douglas
#44. Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.
Ayn Rand
#46. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I
Charles Dickens
#47. The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#48. Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Tom Stoppard
#49. I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies
#50. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
William Shakespeare
#51. It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
Joseph Addison
#53. So I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.
George MacDonald
#55. ... in between the neighbour who recalls her
coming in from a walk on the moors
with her face "lit up by a divine light"
and the sister who tells us
Emily never made a friend in her life,
is a space where the little raw soul
slips through.
Anne Carson
#56. A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.
Chic Murray
#57. Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Horace
#58. I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen.
Mohammad Marandi
#60. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Emily Bronte
#61. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.
George MacDonald
#62. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.
Thomas Asbridge
#63. Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
#65. How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next 'Get it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so,
James Moore
#68. This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
#70. we must by every means implant in the field of our heart the seeds of the virtues, faith, hope in God, and love for God and our neighbour,
John Of Kronstadt
#71. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#72. If a man keeps the law, I know he is a lover of his neighbour. But he is not a lover because he keeps the law: he keeps the law because he is a lover. No heart will be content with the law for love. The law cannot fulfil love.
George MacDonald
#73. Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?
Liza Mundy
#74. Love Thy Neighbour! You never know when you might need your lawnmower back.
Peter J Morris
#75. Apparently "love thy neighbour" changes to "judge thy neighbour" if your family doesn't follow the church playbook.
Miranda Kenneally
#76. Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
Nicole Kidman
#77. I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.
Paulo Coelho
#78. It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
Thomas Aquinas
#79. That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
Mary McAleese
#80. To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
#81. To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth
demands.
Joseph Goebbels
#82. I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.
John Wesley
#85. When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience.
Anthony Giddens
#86. Always he's looking for something, he's chasing it. Always the neighbour's grass is greener, somewhere else, over the next hill." Her smile was slight. "My grass is green enough.
Susanna Kearsley
#87. The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.
Sheldon Vanauken
#89. You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
Abu Bakr
#90. May the Lord Bless you in your life, may through His Love you give your life to Him, and to love your neighbour.
George Calleja
#91. A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
#92. We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. ... Christ's cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!
Catherine Doherty
#93. I am my nearest neighbour.
Tacitus
#94. Some of the drops of water fell onto my skin and by impulse was to smell the water. It stank. My neighbour whispered in my ear, "It's cow's urine and gobar. They use it for purification." We, the untouchables, were purified with bullshit.
Anand Neelakantan
#95. The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.
John Ruskin
#96. This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.
Brigham Young
#97. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Henri Bergson
#98. If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#99. Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Saint Augustine
#100. This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.
Amit Chaudhuri
