Best Neighbor Sayings
1177 Neighbor quotes by 832 unique authors
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the…
— Sun Tzu
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are…
— Mother Teresa
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat…
— James F. Cooper
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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
— C.S. Lewis
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs…
— Paul Fleischman
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Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a…
— Dave Barry
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
— Satish Kumar
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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to…
— Sojourner Truth
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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
— Philip Neri
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
— Teresa of Avila
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
— Robert Breault
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
— Eric Hoffer
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But as importantly, it lies in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say,…
— George W. Bush
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,…
— Ronald Reagan
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