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We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into. By Alexandra Stoddard Neighbors Windows Greet Elevator Sidewalk

An old friend is a new house. By George Herbert House Friend

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning Talk Reputation Good Neighbor Cuts

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. By Hesiod Misfortune Blessing Bad Neighbor Good

neighborhood, the place I left each By Christina Baker Kline Neighborhood Place Left

Death is my neighbor now. By Edith Evans Death Neighbor

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. By Gilbert K. Chesterton Man Environment Nextdoor Neighbor Dog

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day. By Gordon Smith Times Day Neighbor

My neighbour is the very famous Johnny Depp, who looks away should I ever appear. When my seven-year tenure at Sweetzer ends, Johnny Depp will buy the house for use as a guest annex. By Morrissey Johnny Depp Neighbour Famous Sweetzer

neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' By Diana Gabaldon Kirry Neighborhood Pronounced Spelt

Daemon," a voice whispered from the shadows of my front porch. "What in the world are you doing out here?" Debating on whether or not burning down a house next time they head to the store is a reasonable response to getting new neighbors? Yeah, I was gonna keep that one to myself. By Jennifer L. Armentrout Daemon Porch Voice Whispered Shadows

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. By Miranda Cosgrove Growing Door Neighbor Friend Child

I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret that all I know about my neighbours is their wireless network names: Krypton, Space balls, Couscous, and Scarlet. From this I can tell little else than that they're fans of Superman, Mel Brooks, Middle Eastern cuisine, and the colour red. I look out my window, wondering whose house is whose and what private food and entertainment consumption occurs in each and how I will never get to know. By Jonathan Goldstein Craigslist Listings Krypton Couscous Turn

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around. By Byron Katie Judge Neighbor Write Questions Turn

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me. By Elisabeth Shue Door Girl Live

People always describe small towns as quaint or cozy or familiar. "You know who your neighbors are," they always seemed to say. But what you won't find depicted in a Norman Rockwell painting is how cruel those same neighbors can be. By T. Torrest People Familiar Describe Small Towns

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior. By John Mellencamp Check Forgot Neighbors Behavior Question

I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination. By Ike Barinholtz Pretty Lucky Chicago Neighbors Wrigley

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. By Howard E. Koch Good Neighbor Neighbors

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are. By Jami Attenberg Midwest Neighbors

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses. By Grace Lee Boggs Serve Urgently Bring Street Love

Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor By Sunday Adelaja Neighbor Money Meet

The Samaritan, the foreigner, makes himself the neighbor and shows me that I have to learn to be a neighbor deep within and that I already have the answer in myself. I have to become like someone in love, someone whose heart is open to being shaken up by another's need. Then I find my neighbor, or - better - then I am found by him. By Pope Benedict Xvi Samaritan Foreigner Makes Neighbor Shows

Gage wants to know more about his neighbor, Miss Dupree the one who keeps getting undressed at night with the curtains open and the lights on.In mock horror,Parker swung in his chair. Hey! you and Ashley are Gage's neighbors! By Richie Tankersley Cusick Miss Dupree Chair Gage Undressed

The girl next door was meowing. What in the world was my neighbor packing to make that happen? By Alice Clayton Meowing Girl Door Happen World

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well. By Hamid Karzai Neighbor Enemy Call Request Good

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in. By Sam Ewing Minutes Neighbor Stand Door Talking

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in. By Rose Macaulay Neighbors Free Longer Tangled Stop

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor. By Thomas Menino Mayor Neighbor True Privilege Opportunity

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work. By Dan Buettner Live Water Neighbors Neighborhood Consummately

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ. By Gerard Majella Christ Person Jesus Neighbor

Love your neighbor ... and in doing so, do it as you love yourself! Take up the loads that will cause your neighbor a neck pain; don't put a heavy cross over his/her neck! By Israelmore Ayivor Love Neighbor Neck Pain Loads

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house. By Orlando Aloysius Battista Sale Sign House Feel Neighbor

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Tree Neighbour

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. By Martin Luther King Jr. Brothers Good Neighbor External Accidents

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain. By Julian Tuwim Vain Desire Neighbor Wife

When you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. By Ellen Hopkins Neighbor Thrives Live Afraid Monster

To our horror, the very neighbor whom we had for decades thought of as the best natured and hardest working and, we always thought, the most contented of all our neighbors has turned out to be a murderer. By Thomas Bernhard Thought Horror Murderer Decades Natured

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me. By Elisabeth Shue Door Girl Live

For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. By Gordon Brown Centuries Individuals Neighbours Learning Live

It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins. By Dermot Healy Begins Neighbor House Fiction

They always told me not to get in the car with strangers." "I'm not a stranger. I'm your neighbor." "My strange neighbor. By Eva Morgan Neighbor Told Car Strangers Stranger

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor. By Jeffrey Klein Globe Neighbor Technologically Find Likeminded

- just your basic girl next door, assuming your girl next door comes spring-loaded with seventeen ways to kill a man. Which implies a pretty interesting neighborhood that most people probably don't want to visit. By Seanan Mcguire Girl Door Assuming Man Basic

Since I've moved here, you have shown up at my door eight times. I obey the laws, I pay my taxes, and I haven't even gotten a parking ticket in my entire time as a driver. Yet if anything at all happens in the neighborhood, you appear at my door. I bet if a meteorite fell somewhere in the subdivision, you would be here asking me if I personally launched it out of my doomsday cannon. By Ilona Andrews Door Moved Shown Times Time

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits. By Lynn Samuels Luckily Neighbors Exits Avoid Building

The way is an ill neighbour. By George Herbert Neighbour Ill

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well. By Pawan Mishra Good Neighbors Spy Make

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, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. By Willa Cather Man Side Uncertain Puzzled Neighbor

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. By Francis Quarles Borrow Neighbor Money Time Equal

the landlord, Mr. El Cheap-o Thompkins, By Suzanne Brockmann Thompkins Cheapo Landlord

I'm not the girl next door. By Carine Roitfeld Door Girl

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don't even know my next-door neighbor's name. By Jon Mcgregor World People Nextdoor Neighbor

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters. By Ray Parker Jr. Neighborhood Call Busters Strange Gonna

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine? ... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be mine? ... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.Since we're together we might as well say:Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?Won't you please,Won't you please?Please won't you be my neighbor? By Fred Rogers Mine Day Beautiful Neighbor Neighborhooda

God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself. By James Richardson God Neighbors Loved Love

of a vacant house on Simpson Street, waiting for a FedEx van. The curtains of the house were By J. Royal Horton Street Simpson Waiting Van House

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. ( ... ) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors. By Henri J.m. Nouwen Road Neighbors Cross Lot Crossing

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol. By Carla Gallo Door Symbol Girl Sex

The House shewes the owner. By George Herbert House Owner Shewes

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY. By Felder Rushing Matter Neighbors Gonna Talk

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. By Laurence Sterne Italy Cottage Mountain Habitation Asked

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. By L.m. Montgomery Poor Soul Neighbors Knew Acquainted

My neighbor has a circular driveway ... he can't get out. By Steven Wright Driveway Neighbor Circular

17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, By Anonymous House Foot Seldom Neighbor

Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at leaset a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction? By Elizabeth Von Arnim Blessings Neighbour Neighbours Life Books

Is there a reason why you're standing there, staring out the window and watching the neighbors? Are we preparing to kill them and drag them down to the basement and bury them alive? By R.l. Mathewson Staring Neighbors Reason Standing Window

That's not in my yard. By Katrina Katen Yard

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees. By Captain Beefheart Trees Joshua Neighbours Animals

Nothing says 'Hi, neighbor!' like killing a guy's flying reptile. By Rick Riordan Neighbor Reptile Killing Guy Flying

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,To tell what every schoolboy knows. By Jonathan Swift Neighbour Lifts Noseto Schoolboy

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense. By Jane Jacobs Valentine Neighborhood Word Sound City

Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging environment. The By Ted Koppel Neighborliness Environment Slogan Essential Element

Delores! Hey Dee - you awake?" Because this is New York City, a neighbor immediately yells back, "We're all awake now, asshole! By Emma Chase Delores Dee City Asshole Awake

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life. By Joseph Epstein Neighborhood Wanted Convenience Life Ideally

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. By Carl Sandburg Love Fence Neighbor

I am the guy, next door who eats a lot and doesn't get fat. By Jordano Quaglia Guy Fat Door Eats Lot

Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortable. "I'm glad to see you," Carey was saying warmly while I was decoding her identity. By Charlaine Harris Hey Neighbor Exclaimed Vision Carey

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor. By Groucho Marx Remember Neighbor Grass Greener Happen

Now I'm in a rougher neighborhood. The kind of neighborhood where you keep your rover doors locked and never come to a complete stop at intersections. By Andy Weir Neighborhood Rougher Intersections Kind Rover

Don't piss off your neighbors, I guess, Conner said. By Chris Colfer Conner Neighbors Guess Piss

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting. By Mark Twain Sake Resulting Happy Knowing Neighbor

I've just purchased a property, Edward, close to yours in By Kitty Neale Edward Property Close Purchased

It's interesting that my neighbor Irv, who saw dogs so differently, knew all the kids and people on the block and could recite the family history of each house until about a decade ago. Now few of our neighbors can name more than a handful of people who live on the street. They have little to do with local government, and vote sporadically, at best. In the evenings and on weekends, they go their own ways. Their kids are repeatedly warned about talking to people they don't know. By Jon Katz Irv People Differently Knew Ago

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love. By Leith Anderson Neighbor Love Encounter Applies

Standing on the front porch was the kind of person who would probably elicit a question like 'You ain't from around here are ya, son?' from most people around there. By Jonathon Kane Son Standing Front Porch Kind

Six hours later, when I returned, I was greeted at the door- and this before it was even opened -by the overpowering smell of vinegar. What were my neighbors thinking? That a douche-obsessed woman with a gigantic, three-foot vagina lived next door? By Augusten Burroughs Returned Opened Vinegar Door Hours

Only bullets and walls make for honest neighbors. By Philipp Meyer Neighbors Bullets Walls Make Honest

Their suburbia house in Brentwood was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need. By Joan Didion Brentwood Establishing Decision Taste House

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one, who claims he loves me. By David Hopper Lyin Guess Truthful Neighbor Hates

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. By George Herbert Love Neighbor Hedge Pull

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. By Euripides Luckier Neighbor Happy

It's quiet in the suburbs. It's too cold for people to be in their gardens; and it's not a thoroughfare so few cars drive by. I look past decaying roses and through the first flush of Michelmas daisies, blazing a glorious purple, into the darkened windows of the houses we walk by. Who lives here? Are they watching us? Did one of our neighbours do something seven years ago that he now regrets? How little we know of the people who surround us. By Sanjida Kay Suburbs Quiet People Michelmas Gardens

I just happened to be in the neighborhood, walking my dog ... " This was sounding lame. "Several miles from my home,in the middle of the night,in the snow.And I found myself in your backyard."His eyes flew open. "With the cats?""If that's what you call them. By Jennifer Echols Neighborhood Walking Dog Happened Lame

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. By Dean Mclaughlin Shelter Thy Neighbor Fallout Food

You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him. By John Of Kronstadt Abrupt Careless Neighbor Harsh Unpleasant

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage. By Aretha Franklin Stage Lady Door

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. By Frederick Buechner Neighbors Faces Love Eyes Artists

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. By Miguel De Unamuno Vision True Neighbor

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. By Alexandre Dumas Neighbor Protect Society Socialists Progressives