Neighbor Quotes

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

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

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

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

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

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.