Neighbour Quotes - Page 14

In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

Jack Dee

Taken, Doors, Years

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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

C. S. Lewis

Screwtape Letters

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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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 silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

Silence, Soul, Ruins

St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.117, TAN Books

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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mean, Eye, Thinking

The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

William Penn

Allowance, Rebuke, Severe

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

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Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
To tell what every schoolboy knows.

Jonathan Swift

Education, Noses, Lifts

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, ...: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.153

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In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

Willa Cather

Country, Distance, Winter

Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.20, Vintage

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There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.

Anna Kingsford

Heart, Men, Understanding

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We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

Albert Schweitzer

Darkness, Together, Lightning

Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

Wrath, Evil, Rewards

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Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

Ovid

Milk, Crops, Produce

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A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

George Herbert

Rivers

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Benjamin Whichcote

Eye, Men, Cases

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Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
And now I think I have said sufficient.

Anne Bronte

Mother, Children, Book

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.743, Penguin

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Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

Rebecca West

War, Hands, Psychology

Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

Marcel Proust

Laughter, World, Next

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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

Pliny the Elder

Advice, Way, Secure

Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.853, Delphi Classics

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People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

Mother Teresa

God, People, Giving

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The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Enemy, Domination, Elevation

Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.46

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Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Lawrence M. Krauss

Believe, People, Morality

"Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Delta Goodrem

Song, People, Trying

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Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

Plutarch

Men, Law, Land

Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

Peter MacKay

Fighting, Iraq, Canada

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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Children, Meals, Different

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I went to a fancy dress party as a punk. I went through a stage of being a wannabe punk from the '70s. So, my next-door neighbours were like hardcore punks and I went to see The Vibrators and came home with a T-shirt that said "The Vibrators". My mum said: "You're not going out in that!" But I was really into it. I did soon grow out of it. But that's probably the most embarrassing story I have. I really am just quite normal.

Georgia Groome

Party, Home, Punk

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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