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Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. -- George Bernard Shaw
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees. -- Charles Bent
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job? -- Nicole Kidman
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. -- Edmund Burke
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. -- George Eliot
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.' -- Les Dawson
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. -- Jonathan Swift
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
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
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
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. -- Arne Jacobsen
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
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. -- William Shakespeare
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour. -- Joseph Addison
By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'. -- Thomas Asbridge
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. -- Matthew Arnold
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. -- Richard Stallman
Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian -- Pope Francis
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water. -- Yahya Jammeh
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. -- Rudyard Kipling
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed. -- Julian Baggini
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. -- Cyril Connolly
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. -- Henri Bergson
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves. -- Elias Hicks
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. -- Walter Savage Landor
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. -- William Ralph Inge
To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty -- Pope Francis
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
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. -- Henry Brooke
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
History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours. -- Paddy Ashdown
I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. -- John Rhys-Davies
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. -- Tom Stoppard
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. -- Tom Stoppard
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. -- Paulo Coelho
Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be. -- Joel Osteen
I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way. -- Robbie Williams
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. -- John Wycliffe
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely. -- Bertrand Russell
I am my nearest neighbour. -- Tacitus
The way is an ill neighbour. -- George Herbert
Rob a neighbour with a smile. -- Khalil Gibran
Power is the near neighbour of necessity. -- Pythagoras
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. -- Louise Lester
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. -- W. H. Auden
Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. -- Horace
Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so, -- James Moore
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows. -- Jonathan Swift
You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter. -- Tim Vine
A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet. -- Chic Murray
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour. -- Pliny the Elder
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour. -- Mother Teresa
When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself. -- Rumi
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour -- Phil Harding
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. -- George Herbert
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. -- Saint Augustine
Send a solid idea to beyond this universe!A neighbour universe will soon be existed. -- Toba Beta
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? -- John Walford
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. -- Saadi
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. -- Ovid
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with. -- Mooji
Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen. -- Mick Jagger
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. -- Nicolas Bentley
I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen. -- Mohammad Marandi
I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. -- Bertrand Russell
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love -- Soren Kierkegaard
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. -- Shane Claiborne
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. -- C. S. Lewis
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day. -- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them. -- Thomas Aquinas
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves. -- Mother Teresa
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. -- Dov Davidoff
'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message. -- Madonna Ciccone
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality -- John Stuart Mill
Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide. -- Milton Berle
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour. -- William Penn
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
The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack! -- Rick Mercer
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North. -- Peter Jennings
Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart. -- Israelmore Ayivor
World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness. -- Narendra Modi
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be. -- Teresa of Avila
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. -- William Shakespeare
This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise! -- Alexander Murdoch Mackay
Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?" -- Epictetus
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million. -- William Henry Vanderbilt
The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes? -- William Butler Yeats
It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. -- John Dyer
Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
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
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. -- Demosthenes
By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide." -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! -- Soren Kierkegaard
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it. -- Phyllis Bottome
The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self. -- Russell M. Nelson
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. -- Clement Attlee
Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish. -- Amy-Jill Levine
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands. -- Joseph Goebbels
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by. -- African Spir
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. -- Vitruvius
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... -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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
Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever? -- Liza Mundy

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