139 Quotes About Neighbors

Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.

There are few things in life worse than a drop-in. The supposed whimsy and fun therein are fabrications only promulgated by uninspired situation comedies, pablum made for the enjoyment of fools. For individuals with actual things to do, it is no different than truncating that person’s life by the duration of the visit.

Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.

There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

Imagine what our real neighbors would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. There have been so many stories about the lack of courtesy, the impatience of today's world, road rage and even restaurant rage. Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many.

today, i am a black woman in a body of coali am always burning and no one knows my namei am a nameless fury, i am a blues scratched fromthe throat of ms. nina—i am always angryi am always a bumble hive of helloi love like this too loudly, my neighborsthink i am an unforgiving bitter sometimes, i think my neighbors are right most times i think my neighbors are nosey

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.