Neighbor Quotes

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

Job, Depression, Lose

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

Door, Next, Concerned

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Gods, Injury

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Friend

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately

Good, Selfish, Pursuing

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West

Love, Happens, Thy

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Says, Thinks

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus Christ

Love, Yourself, Single

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Spiritual, Question, Material

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'
Mitt Romney

Good, Future, Job

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.
Steven Wright

Circular, Driveway

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, God, Thoughts

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz

Equality, Cannot, Dangerous

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Government, Hand, Helping

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman

Job, Depression, Lose

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Miguel de Unamuno

True, Him, Vision

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Humanity, Whole

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Love, God

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace

Success, Grows, Envious

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Horace

Safety, Wall, Stake

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Best, Enemy

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Horace

Fire, Concern, Wall

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg

Love, Yourself, Down

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Love, God, Daily

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard

Ignorance, Foolish, Bliss

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley

Hell, Able, Fact

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.
Howard Koch

Good, Neighbors

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

Sure, Needs, Thinks

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Euripides

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