A good neighbour, a good morrow. [ Proverb ]
Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]
An unpeaceable man hath no neighbour. [ Proverb ]
Danger is next neighbour to security. [ Proverb ]
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. [ William Shakespeare ]
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour. [ Bible ]
His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]
No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. [ Danish Proverb ]
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence. [ German Proverb ]
Love your neighbour, but cut not up your hedge for him. [ Proverb ]
You may love your neighbour and yet not hold his stirrup. [ Proverb ]
Nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbour pleases. [ Proverb ]
Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
When the house of your neighbour is on fire, your own is in danger. [ Proverb ]
I had rather ask of my fire brown bread than borrow of my neighbour white. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No one is allowed to do on his own premises what may injure those of a neighbour. [ Law ]
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. [ St. Paul ]
Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but it is my next neighbour that does me the harm. [ Proverb ]
He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]
Who more ready to call her neighbour scold, than the greatest scold in all the street? [ Proverb ]
We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]
You cannot get anything out of Nature or from God by gambling; - only out of your neighbour. [ John Ruskin ]
Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]
Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. [ Sir T. Browne ]
When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]