#neighbors

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#admired #audience #back #better #congress

If love shows itself in the eyes, then my neighbors love me: I’m on their watch list. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #love #neighbors #funny

Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gossiping #humor #neighbors #voyeurism

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. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#busy #compassion #love #love-your-neighbor #neighbors

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

#live #make #neighbors #our #them

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ↗

— George Bancroft

#characters #depend #enough #exciting #lives

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#generation #german #lands #militarism #neighbors

These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home. ↗

— Paige Davis

#days #decorated #each #end #finished

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#fellow #fellow americans #friends #hall #meetings

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ↗

— James Goldsmith

#immediate #neighbors #tolerance #tremendous #virtue