Neighbour Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Neighbour Snow Stones Weight Whiteness
Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Often people tell us that a particular relative or a neighbour is not of good character or behaviour and we believe their point of… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
