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  • The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? -- Mother Teresa
  • How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. -- Arthur Baer
  • To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. -- John Locke
  • Neighbor"¦ was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays? -- Gena Showalter
  • His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker. -- Henny Youngman
  • [Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
  • The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
  • I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love. -- John Lasseter
  • We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess. -- Cleo Moore
  • To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do. -- Phyllis Diller
  • Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost
  • When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities. -- Jennifer Pahlka
  • Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. -- Carl Sandburg
  • If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. -- Pietro Aretino
  • Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. -- Horace
  • Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. -- Howard E. Koch
  • It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. -- Ronald Reagan
  • He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. -- Venerable Bede
  • Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. -- Hesiod
  • It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman
  • A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. -- Richard Whately
  • It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman
  • As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. -- Jacques Ellul
  • For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? -- Jane Austen
  • Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. -- Mae West
  • The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that. -- Phil Robertson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Willa Cather
  • 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
  • As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. -- Edith Stein
  • 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
  • To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus. -- Pope Francis
  • I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. -- Tim Roth
  • If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. -- Phil McGraw
  • I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. -- Mark Wahlberg
  • Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. -- Saint Ignatius
  • Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble. -- Adam DeVine
  • Death is my neighbor now. -- Edith Evans
  • Lick your neighbor as yourself! -- Samuel Beckett
  • Love the neighbor. But don't get caught. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. -- Sappho
  • One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Your neighbor is the man who needs you. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain. -- Julian Tuwim
  • A good neighbor is a very desireable thing. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks. -- Phil Robertson
  • No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for. -- Voltaire
  • Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. -- Euripides
  • Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. -- Thaddeus of Vitovnica
  • Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. -- Faina Ranevskaya
  • A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country. -- Joe Biden
  • Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. -- George Herbert
  • Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. -- John Ray
  • I can love the whole world except my neighbor. -- Dada Dharmadhikari
  • In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. -- Fred Rogers
  • Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace. -- Barry McGuire
  • It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor. -- Mother Teresa
  • Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor. -- James Branch Cabell
  • Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself. -- Seneca the Younger
  • We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes. -- Pablo Casals
  • I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ. -- Gerard Majella
  • My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out. -- Steven Wright
  • Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer. -- Gladys Taber
  • Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. -- Socrates
  • Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. -- Kin Hubbard
  • Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing. -- Brother Lawrence
  • Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor -- Mark Twain
  • Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor. -- Leo Baeck
  • It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire -- Horace
  • It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. -- Horace
  • God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. -- Martin Luther
  • The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. -- Horace
  • Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. -- Sappho
  • A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services. -- Jennifer Pahlka
  • Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] -- Quintilian
  • Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around. -- Byron Katie
  • Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him. -- Pittacus of Mytilene
  • There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught. -- Jerry Lawler
  • One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. -- Gore Vidal
  • No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark. -- Nathaniel Macon
  • Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. -- Franklin P. Jones
  • The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor. -- Brennan Manning
  • Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. -- Martin Luther
  • Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. -- Otto Rank
  • Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. -- W. C. Fields
  • My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. -- Doc Severinsen
  • To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius. -- Minna Antrim
  • No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves. -- Hayley Williams
  • The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Grass is always greener on your side, just switch places with your neighbor. -- Saru Singhal
  • My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day. -- Gordon Smith
  • COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. -- Karl Kraus
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