Neighbors Sayings and Quotes – Inspire Quotes and Sayings

Neighbors Sayings and Quotes

  • “Good fences make good neighbours.” —Robert Frost
  • “Love thy neighbor, but don’t pull down your hedge.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “How you can have dreams when your neighbors have nightmares.” —M.F. Moonzajer
  • “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.” —Mignon McLaughlin
  • “Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.” —Jane Austen
  • “It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.” —Mother Teresa
  • “Not even the devil can so sharp eyes have as neighbors.” —Heinrich Boll
  • “All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet.” —Ana Monnar
  • “Good neighbors are worth more than an extra sixteen trees.” —David Mas Masumoto
  • “If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.” —Emily Post
  • “If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.” —Pietro Aretino
  • “One’s neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.” —Gore Vidal
  • “Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” —Confucius
  • “You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.” —Howard E. Koch
  • “Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.” —Pawan Mishra
  • “And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.” —Robert Fulghum
  • “They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.” —Norman Douglas
  • “Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.” —Franklin P. Jones
  • “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.” —Harper Lee
  • “A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.” —Hesiod
  • “If you burn your neighbor’s house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.” —Lou Holtz
  • “When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.” —Chilon
  • “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” —Hubert H. Humphrey
  • “We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • “There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.” —Cyril Connolly
  • “A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.” —Richard Whately
  • “People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbours.” —Edgar Watson Howe
  • “To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.” —Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • “We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.” —David McCallum
  • “People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.” —George Eliot
  • “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” —Mother Teresa
  • “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” —Jane Austen
  • “If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.” —Jeff Foxworthy
  • “A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” —Arthur Baer
  • “Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.” —Robert Breault
  • “Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.” —Michel Quoist
  • “I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.” —Lydia Davis
  • “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • “Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.” —Confucius
  • “All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.” —Harry S. Truman
  • “A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into.” —Alexandra Stoddard
  • “Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things right anyway?” —Mother Teresa
  • “The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.” —Aleister Crowley