Neighbour Quotes

• Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nature, Anxiety, Trouble

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.3290, e-artnow

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

  Eric Morecambe

  Clever, Garden, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  Aristotle

  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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• There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

  Cyril Connolly

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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• If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cottages, Palaces, Bears

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• A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

  Rupert Brooke

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Kindness, Good Life, Doors

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• Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

  Nicole Kidman

  Jobs, Salary, Stories

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• Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.

  Fergie

  Television, Sometimes, Turns

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• If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Half, Neighbor

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• Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

  John Cleese

  Loving You, Might, Impossible

  1993 In The Times.

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• That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

  Mary McAleese

  Memories, Past, Littles

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• Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

  Confucius

  Loyal, Charitable

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• The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

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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

  People, Should, Quarrels

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• Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

  Joseph Butler

  Self, Self Love, Hatred

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Five Sermons”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

  Richard Bayan

  Doors, Next, Stranger

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• Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love You, 4th Of July, Good Neighbor

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.

  George Herbert

  Beloved, Wells

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.221

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• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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• Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Often Is, Groups, States

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Friendly, Tactics, Terror

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• I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

  Julian Barnes

  Sibling, Believe, Helping Others

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