Quotes with neighbor

  • You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
  • A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
  • 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.
  • How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
  • There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Horace Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Hesiod A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Rupert Brooke A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ronald Reagan A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
    Speech, 01-09-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Lord Burleigh Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Confucius Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Francis Quarles Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Carl Schurz 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
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Here everybody has a neighbor
    Everybody has a friend
    Everybody has a reason to begin again.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Seneca 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?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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