Neighbour Quotes

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

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

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

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.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

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.'

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere.

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.