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6/1/2025

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Neighborhoods And Neighborliness

3/26/2025

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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive right next to you!
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A woman was worried about an older woman, a widow, who lived in the apartment next door. She had not heard anything from her for a few days. So she told her son, “I want you to go next door and see how ol’ Mrs. Pierpoint is.” A few minutes later, the boy returned. “Well, is she all right?” the mother asked. “She’s fine, but she’s annoyed with you,” he said. “At me? Whatever for?” “Well,” said her son, “Mrs. Pierpoint told me it’s none of your business how old she is.”
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“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.” -Pawan Mishra (born 1976)
 
“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.” -Alexandra Stoddard (born 1941) at https://www.alexandrastoddard.com
 
“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” -Arthur Baer (Arthur ‘Bugs’ Baer (1886 - 1969))
 
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book IV, 18
 
For many reasons ’tis unwisely said
To know thyself; more profitable it is
To know thy neighbors!
-Menander of Athens (342 B.C.E. - 291 B.C.E.)
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“Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb
 
“Love your neighbor, yet pull not downe your hedge*.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 141
*hedge: a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs; also called a hedgerow
 
“Love thy Neighbor; yet don’t pull down your Hedge*.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1754)
*hedge: a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs; also called a hedgerow
 
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
-Robert Frost (Robert Lee Frost (1874 - 1963)): “North of Boston” (1914), ‘Mending Wall’; type of work: poem within a book of collected poems
 
“We are all each other’s neighbors.” -Katherine Paterson
 
“My neighbor has a circular driveway . . . He can’t get out.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
Neighborliness, noun: The quality of being friendly or helpful to one’s neighbors.
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“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
Picture of four houses, two trees, one flower, and the words, Welcome To The Neighborhood - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
​“Love your neighbor as yourself.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Leviticus,’ chapter 19, verse 18
 
“We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.” -David McCallum (David Keith McCallum, Junior (born 1933))
 
“Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.” -Louise Lester Beal (1867 - 1952)
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“More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency, and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival, that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.” -Ordway Tead (1891 - 1973): as attributed in “Forbes” (1950) magazine and “The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life” (1992), page 66
 
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)): “Mere Christianity” (1952)
 
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
 
“I always thought I had good neighbors. It turns out I have the best neighbors in the world.” -Jim Casey
 
“Sometimes, your best friends live right next door.” -Author Unknown
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“A hedge between keeps friendships green.” -Author Unknown
 
Ways To Be Neighborly
- Smile.
- Say hello.
- Introduce yourself.
Can you think of other ways to be neighborly?
 
“Good fences make good neighbors, but good friendships make better ones.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” -Fred McFeely Rogers (also known as Mister Rogers (1928 - 2003))
 
“Having the right neighbors is better than having a perfect view.” -Author Unknown
 
“To have good neighbors, we each must be one ourselves.” -Author Unknown
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“The whole world is one neighborhood.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (also known as FDR (1882 - 1945)))
 
“Neighbors are people who start conversations by saying, ‘Did you hear?’” -Author Unknown
 
“All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet.” -Ana Monnar
 
“Is it so great a step to realize that all people everywhere are neighbors?” -Arthur Dunn
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“It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.” -William Castle (1914 - 1977)
 
“You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.” -Howard E. Koch
 
“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.” -Hesiod: “Works and Days” (about 700 B.C.)
 
“A good neighbor is a welcome blessing!” -Author Unknown
 
“What will the neighbors think . . . they’re starting to talk.” -Author Unknown
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My neighbor knocked on my door at 2:30 a.m. this morning - can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.?! Luckily for him, I was still up playing my bagpipes!
 
“Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)
 
“The only people who listen to both sides of a family quarrel are the next-door neighbors.” -Author Unknown
 
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” -Jane Austen: “Pride and Prejudice” (1813)
 
“They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.” -Norman Douglas (George Norman ‘Norman’ Douglas (1868 - 1952))
 
Mrs. Miller: Mrs. Johnson, when you returned my eggbeater, I found you had broken it. What are you going to do about it? Mrs. Jones: That’s ridiculous. In the first place, I never borrowed your eggbeater. Furthermore, it was in good condition when I brought it back. And anyway, it was broken when you lent it to me.
 
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Exodus,’ chapter 20, verse 16
 
An open door, a kindly heart,
     A ready hand to lend,
You’re more than special neighbors,
     You’re also special friends.
-Author Unknown
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“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
 
“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
 
“All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.” -Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
 
“Your neighborhood will be a delightful place to live if you yourself are a delightful neighbor to live beside.” -Author Unknown
 
“Neighbors are simply good side-by-side friends.” -Author Unknown
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When is National Good Neighbor Day? National Good Neighbor Day is observed on 28 September of each year.
 
“Do all you can to dwell in harmony with all your neighbors.” -Author Unknown
 
“Won’t you be my neighbor?” -Fred McFeely Rogers (also known as Mister Rogers (1928 - 2003))
 
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