Quotes of Neighbors - somelinesforyou

“ This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. ”

- Chuck Sigars

“ Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ”

- Confucius

“ There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ”

- George Eliot

“ A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. ”

- Hesiod

“ The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. ”

- Jewish Proverb

“ How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ”

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“ 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.

“ It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood. ”

- Russian proverb

“ No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. ”

- Tom Thompson

“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ”

- William Ralph Inge
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