Neighbors And Friends Quotes

• A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

  Arthur Baer

  Funny, Hiking, Your Smile

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Friends, Men

  Address to the Canadian Parliament, May 17, 1961.

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, Opposites

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Together, Allies

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.383, Best Books on

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• Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

  George Herbert

  Love, Life, Garden

  George Herbert (1877). “Beauties of Rev. George Herbert, A. M.”

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• If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

  Pietro Aretino

  Funny, Truth, Want

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• People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, People, Devil

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors Friends, Lawyer, Compromise

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

  Allen Johnson

  Friendship, Christian, Jesus

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Fall, Dark

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Diamond Jubilee, Atmosphere, Together

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Light, Feelings, Church

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• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  Movie, Queens, Character

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• Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Black, Innocence, Tradition

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador

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• There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

  Jeff Sessions

  Determination, Rights, White

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century.

  James H. Fowler

  Book, Sea, Discipline

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• When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.

  Mencius

  Children, Fall, Men

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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