Sayings about Neighbors
Serve your neighbors as you would be served yourself. ~ Japanese Proverbs
When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife. ~ Swiss Proverbs
A good neighbor increases the value of your property. ~ Czech Proverb
If your roof is made of glass, don’t throw stones at your neighbor’s house. ~ Spanish Proverb
Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. ~ Swedish Proverb
My chicken is good, but my neighbor’s looks better. ~ Romanian Proverbs
If you see your neighbor’s beard burning then wet your own. ~ French Guianese Proverb
You can’t sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth. ~ Russian Proverbs
If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man. ~ Armenian Proverbs
He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The nicest woman is your own; the nicest harvest is your neighbors. ~ Korean Proverbs
Better a thief for a neighbor than an overzealous rabbi. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Do something good and your neighbor will never know, do something bad and they will hear about it a hundred miles away. ~ Chinese Proverb
I am talking to you, daughter-in-law, so that you could hear it, neighbor! ~ Egyptian Proverbs
In our eyes the neighbor’s chicken is a goose. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. ~ English Proverbs
Love is blind — but not the neighbors. ~ Mexican Proverb
Don’t measure your neighbor’s honesty by your own. ~ American Proverbs
God grant us no neighbor with two eyes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Why marry, when your neighbor’s wife is ready to go to bed with you? ~ Russian Proverb
Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road. ~ Arabian Proverb
Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ~ French Proverb
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ~ Russian Proverb
If you want to hear the truth about yourself — offend your neighbor. ~ Czech Proverb
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. ~ Native American Proverb
Everyone is worth more than his neighbor and less than his son. ~ Serbian Proverb
Do not mend your neighbor’s fence before seeing to your own. ~ Tanzanian Proverb
Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune. ~ Egyptian Proverb
See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor’s ashes. ~ Gaelic Proverb
In the presence of your neighbor don’t praise your wife or his. ~ Spanish Proverb
Love your neighbor, but don’t tear down your fence. ~ German Proverbs
Either do as your neighbors do, or move away. ~ Moroccan Proverb
He who sits waiting for his neighbor will go to bed hungry. ~ Iranian Proverbs
I against my brother. My brother and I against our cousin. My brother, my cousin and I against the neighbors. All of us against the stranger. ~ Bedouin Proverb
A loss not missed by your neighbor is not a real loss. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
What matter if I suffer, if only my neighbor suffers too. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Judge a man not by the words of his mother, but from the comments of his neighbors. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Without men in the neighborhood all the women are chaste. ~ Indian Proverbs
A good fox does not eat his neighbor’s chickens. ~ French Proverb
Sweep in front of your own door before you look after your neighbor’s. ~ Dutch Proverb
Good fences make good neighbors. ~ American Proverb
Does your neighbor bore you? Lend him some money. ~ Italian Proverb
It never rains on your neighbors without you getting your feet wet. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you think your bundle of dirty clothes is too heavy, try picking up your neighbor’s. ~ Virgin Islander Proverb
Our neighbor’s children are always the worst. ~ German Proverb
A bear that dances in your neighbor’s house might soon dance in yours. ~ Macedonian Proverb
In your neighbors’ soup there is always one fatty morsel. ~ Iranian Proverb
Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbor. ~ Lebanese Proverb
A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread. ~ Portuguese Proverb
A good deed will make a good neighbor. ~ Bantu Proverb
Fortune and misfortune are neighbors. ~ German Proverb
A fight in your neighbor’s house is refreshing. ~ Indian Proverb
A physician’s neighbor is never a doctor. ~ Korean Proverb
When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it. ~ Chinese Proverb
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. ~ Danish Proverbs
When your neighbor’s wall breaks, your own is in danger. ~ Icelandic Proverb
The neighbor’s chicken is a duck. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back. ~ Dutch Proverb
The head of your neighbor is a kingdom and his heart a wood. ~ Nigerian Proverb
It’s easy to wad your neighbor’s field. ~ Namibian Proverb
Mix with your neighbors, and you learn what’s doing in your own house. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Don’t laugh when your neighbors oven is on fire. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
If your neighbor is an early riser, you too will become one. ~ Albanian Proverbs
It’s better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors. ~ Indian Proverb
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own. ~ Russian Proverb
It’s better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away. ~ Chinese Proverb
God detests a man who rushes to accuse a neighbor. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Better a bad harvest than a bad neighbor. ~ Croatian Proverb
The monkey does not see his own hind backside; he sees his neighbor’s. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. ~ Traditional Proverb
Corn will look better in your neighbor’s field. ~ Polish Proverbs
The udder of a neighbor’s cow is always bigger. ~ Croatian Proverb
Quotations about Neighbors
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. ~ Ronald Reagan
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it. ~ Arthur Baer
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. ~ Hesiod
Your neighbor is the man who needs you. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there. ~ Franklin P. Jones
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.~ Cyril Connolly
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. ~ Tai Shang Kan Ying Pien
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. ~ Louise Beal
Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. ~ Benjamin Franklin
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor. ~ Gilbert Chesterton
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ~ Bible
If you burn your neighbor’s house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better. ~ Lou Holtz
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ~ Jane Austen
My neighbor doesn’t want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ~ Irving Layton
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ~ Jane Austen
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors. ~ Rudyard Kipling
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. ~ Pietro Aretino
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. ~ Confucius
This is the sum of all — righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself. ~ The Mahabharta
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. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love thy neighbor — but don’t pull down your hedge. ~ Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own.~ George Moore
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames. ~ Horace
It’s not necessary to blow out your neighbor’s light to let your own shine. ~ M.R. Dehaan