Neighbor Quotes

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that makes all men human, and therefore, brothers.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding, all walls shall fall down.

You do not love the Bourgeoisie. Of course: for they Begot you, bore you, paid for you, and punched your head; You work with them; they’re intimate as board and bed; How could you love them, meeting them thus every day? You love the Proletariat, the thin, far-away Abstraction which resembles any workman fed On […]

Sphere of influence. That is a courteous modern phrase which means robbing your neighbor – for your neighbor’s benefit

When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.

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.