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Neighbors

«A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it»
Author: Arthur Baer | About: Neighbors | Keywords: fence
«Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace»
Author: Barry McGuire | About: Hate, Neighbors
«I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.»
Author: Billy Wilder | About: Neighbors | Keywords: neighborhood, Only You
«I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind...It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.»
Author: Ecclesiastes | About: Envy, Neighbors, Success
«My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.»
Author: Eric Morecambe (Comedian) | About: Funny, Neighbors | Keywords: neighbour
«A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing»
Author: Hesiod | About: Neighbors
«Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.»
«Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors»
Author: Swedish Proverb | About: Neighbors | Keywords: doorsteps, sweep
«The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Neighbors | Keywords: dearest, housekeeping
«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, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves»