NEIGHBORS

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them. If you can help your neighbor now, don’t say, “Come back tomorrow, and then I’ll help you.”

Proverbs 3:27–28

Do not plot against your neighbors, for they trust you. Don’t make accusations against someone who hasn’t wronged you.

Proverbs 3:29–30

Evil people love to harm others; their neighbors get no mercy from them.

Proverbs 21:10

Do not testify spitefully against innocent neighbors; don’t lie about them.

Proverbs 24:28

A neighbor is a person who can get to your house in less than a minute and takes two hours to go back home.

O. A. Battista

Every man’s neighbor is his looking glass.

English Proverb

When your neighbor’s house is on fire, your own property is at stake.

It’s easier to love humanity as a whole than to love your neighbor in particular.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.

G. K. Chesterton

Americans sink millions of dollars in unsound financial schemes, one of which is trying to keep up with the neighbors.

Nothing depreciates a car faster than having a neighbor buy a new one.

The ideal neighbor is the one who makes noise at the same time as we do.

You don’t have to be an accomplished musician to play on your neighbors’ nerves.

A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.

German Proverb

I do not ask for mighty words

To leave the crowd impressed;

But grant my life may ring so true,

My neighbor may be blessed.