Neighbour S Quotes

#1. Say 'Synchronize watches', Motti." Con batted her eyelids. "You know I love it when you say 'Synchronize watches'." Motti glowered at Con, put on a bad falsetto French accent: "Would everyone kindly confirm their watch is telling the same time as their neighbour's watch, yes?

Stephen Cole

#2. 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

#3. The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#4. 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

#5. Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Horace

#6. There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.

Anna Kingsford

#7. 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

#8. Hell, if a neighbour were to stick their head out their window and see a tattooed god ramming a chick in the neighbour's backyard all lit by romantic lights, they'd probably watch. I'd watch too.

Karina Halle

#9. Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

Mick Jagger

#10. When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

Yahya Jammeh

#11. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.

Jeff Kinney

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so,

James Moore

#17. Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. 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

#19. What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.

Tom Stoppard

#20. 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

#21. Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

William Shakespeare

#22. How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#24. It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#25. If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Benjamin Whichcote

#26. Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

#27. When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour's cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

Margot McCuaig

#28. Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Edmund Burke

#29. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour's glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.

C.S. Lewis

#30. Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

Ovid

#31. On a moonless night a man entered into his neighbour's garden and stole the largest melon he could find and brought it home.
He opened it and found it still unripe.
Then behold a marvel!
The man's conscience woke and smote him with remorse; and he repented having stolen the melon.

Kahlil Gibran

#32. A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

Clement Attlee

#33. No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
neighbour's heart.

Marcus Aurelius

#34. He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

Nicolas Bentley

#35. For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

William Butler Yeats

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,
It says so much about love and brokenness
it's perfect.

John Green

#39. The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Shane Claiborne

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Amit Chaudhuri

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

Soren Kierkegaard

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Noun leaders must have titles and positions. Verb leaders lead by example. Noun leaders say "listen to me" and "Obey me." Verb leaders say: :Follow me" and "Let me serve you." A movement will not survive under leaders that demand titles and positions.

Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.

#49. Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ...

Hakan Nesser

#50. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

C.S. Lewis

#51. Hey, McFly!" Has Biff returned?? No! It turns out that Howard, George's neighbour, is there! And he wants to sell him Girl Scout cookies!

Ryan North

#52. All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfred Douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action.

Aleister Crowley

#53. Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

John Walford

#54. There was a time when I didn't at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Albert Camus

#55. The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

Saint Francis De Sales

#56. Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him

Rob Shepherd

#57. The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.

Russell M. Nelson

#58. Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy.

Jasper Fforde

#59. Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Mahatma Gandhi

#60. You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.

Tim Vine

#61. I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

Martin Clunes

#62. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

John Stuart Mill