« All Neighbor Quotes · Ralph Waldo Emerson's Page
Neighbor Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
- Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat…
- A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised…
- The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
- 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…
More Neighbor Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft
- Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. — George Ade
- Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural… — Alfred Adler
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. — Josh Billings