Neighbor Quotes

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. (Harry S. Truman)
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. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. View quote
Hesiod
Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog, Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a simple baseball bat. View quote
George Carlin
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. View quote
Irving Layton
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. View quote
Willa Cather
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. (Thomas Jefferson)
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. View quote
George Herbert
With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. View quote
George William Russell
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. View quote
Walter Bagehot
The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ... View quote
Peter Atkins
On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. View quote
John Chrysostom
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor. (Thomas Menino)
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. View quote
Venerable Bede
Here everybody has a neighbor, Everybody has a friend. Everybody has a reason to begin again. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred. View quote
Fred Rogers
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. View quote
Marcus Aurelius