Neighbor Quotes - Page 38

• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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• I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.

  Albert Sabin

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

  James A. Michener

  Pride, Artist, Names

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• The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Fall, Reason

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Snow, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carew Hazlitt (1910). “Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [!”

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• Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wall, Silence, House

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• We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

  Aristotle

  Able, Action, Study

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

  Ovid

  Sibling, Mistake, Doors

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.191, Indiana University Press

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• People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

  Norman Douglas

  People, Reform, Share

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• It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Evil, Paradise, Fool

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

  Karl Deutsch

  Errors, Groups, Ancestry

  Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1969). “Nationalism and its alternatives”

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

  Willa Cather

  Powerful, Past, Long

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Doors, Self

  George MacDonald (1887). “God's Words to His Children: Sermons Spoken and Unspoken”

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• What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Needs, Mercy

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• Stubborness we deprecate,
  Firmness we condone,
  The former is our neighbors trait,
  The latter is our own.

  John Wooden

  Stubbornness, Firmness, Latter

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Past, Names

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• In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

  Lee Iacocca

  Apples, Pie, Yards

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• Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

  Diana Trilling

  Children, People, Property

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

  George Ade

  Men, Construction, Architect

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Shapes, Satisfaction, Discontent

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• To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Men, Charity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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• I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

  Paul Engle

  Religious, School, Sunday

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.151, University of Iowa Press

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• You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

  John McAfee

  Hate, Grandma, Apples

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