Neighbour Quotes

229 quotes by 193 authors

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
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
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
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. — Edmund Burke
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
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours. — Jimmy Carter
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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