Neighbors Quotes

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy

God, History, Together

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Business, Enough

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, War, Find

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

Alone, Stand, Left

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau

Through, Innocence, Discern

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

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

Love, Same, Bible

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz

Down, House, Burn

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt

Hope, Self, Others

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton

Decision, Try, Working

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen

Live, Laugh, Turn

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Robert E. Lee

Love, War, Hatred

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Hate, Ourselves, Hating

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Fool, Devil, Discovered

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

Home, Might, Redneck

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull

Mother, Away, Her

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
Robert W. Service

Life, Society, Free

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, May, Find

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.
Howard Koch

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda Meir

Morning, Him, Country

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison

Wisdom, May, Betray

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings

God, Wicked, Thanking

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall

Friends, Lovers, Colors

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull

Power, Through, Same

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader

Acting, Start, Strangers

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
John Calvin

Trust, Blessings, Enjoy

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.
Shimon Peres

May, Two, Friends

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
Larry David

Time, Door, Next

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
Marc Andreessen

Two, Small, Away

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.
Susan Orlean

Live, Different, Country

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