Neighbour Quotes
229 quotes by 193 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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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
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
— Henri Bergson
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
— Edmund Burke
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must…
— Samuel Butler
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
— Jimmy Carter
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
— Kelly Clarkson
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the…
— Thomas Adams
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
— Gordon Allport
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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,…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its…
— Francis William Aston
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Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
Who Wrote These Neighbour Quotes
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