#neighbour

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke. ↗

— Al Purdy

#bad #because #broke #gave #had

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #could #cultivated #fertile #first

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#halves #injure #neighbour #you #your

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#accommodation #be-kind #each-others-keepers #friend #friendly

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#else #everyone #had #i #isolation

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#enviousness #envy #food-for-thought #hate #haters

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#high #neighbour #people #quarrel #remain

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.' ↗

— Les Dawson

#going #help #i #kicking #men

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ↗

— William Bligh

#cape #daylight #fires #first #first time