#neighbour

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#friends #god #make #makes #neighbour

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#closer #community #family #friends #i

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#neighbours #oblivion #wholesome #wisdom

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#commerce #competition #every #moral #neighbour

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#being #beside #canada #fight #force

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? ↗

— Theresa May

#anyone #build #challenges #children #country

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. ↗

— Li Peng

#chinese #close #enjoyed #exchanges #friendly

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democratic #desire #does #economies

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#because #buildings #care #country #easily