- A good friend is my nearest relation. ~ Thomas Fuller
- As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. ~ Alexander Pope
- It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. ~ George McDonald
- Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. ~ Han Suyin
- Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come. ~ Chinese Proverb
- A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. ~ Lord Greville
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley
- Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. ~ Margaret Thatcher
- Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. ~ Goethe
- Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly. ~ Goan Proverb
- Do not talk about a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. ~ Zulu Proverb
- Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- Far waters cannot quench near fires. ~ Chinese Proverb
- For those in love, Baghdad is near Istanbul. ~ Turkish Proverb
- God’s help is nearer than the door. ~ Irish Proverb
- He who has a head of wax must not go near the fire. ~ French Proverb
- It is good to swim near a boat. ~ German Proverb
- Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ~ David Hare
- Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ~ Plato
- Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ~ Booker T. Washington
- That which is nearest a woman’s heart is the first to come out. ~ Irish Proverb
- The church is near, but the way is icy. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
- The farther from Rome the nearer to God. ~ Dutch Proverb
- The greater the fear the nearer the danger. ~ Danish Proverb
- The moon grows darker as it gets nearer to the sun. ~ Tibetan Proverb
- The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
- The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. ~ Traditional Proverb
- The nearer the inn, the longer the road. ~ German Proverb
- The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application. ~ Author Unknown
- The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. ~ Socrates
- The road of “about,” leads only to the house of “never.” Near the spring nobody dies of thirst. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Though near shore, you’re still in the ocean. ~ Malawian Proverb
- To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. ~ B.C. Forbes
- We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. ~ Nigerian Proverb
- Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire. ~ Latin American Proverb
- You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. ~ Brother Lawrence
