Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. – English Proverb
Hedges between keep friendships green. – Proverb
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. – Pietro Aretino
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. – Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesnt climb over it. – Arthur Baer
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. – Louise Beal
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 – Bible
Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you. – Bible
If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. James 2:8 – Bible
Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. – Bible
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
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor. – G. K. Chesterton
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. – 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
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise ones 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
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other peoples places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
