Top 251 Neighbour Quotes & Sayings

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Rob a neighbour with a smile.

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.

I was Graeme McDowell's neighbour for eight years in Orlando.

A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

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

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

Ronaldo used to be my neighbour, and he passed my house every day. We always greeted each other.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

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.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

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.

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

I am my nearest neighbour.

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

I love 'Princess Mononoke,' 'My Neighbour Totoro.'

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

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

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their perceptions. Even when they are wrong, we have an obligation to create an environment in which the common people in Nepal feel that in India they have a great friend.

Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

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

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.

There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

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.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

The way is an ill neighbour.

You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.