Beggar Thy Neighbor

Famous quotes containing the words beggar, thy and/or neighbor:

    If some beggar steals a bridle
    he’ll be hung by a man who’s stolen a horse.
    There’s no surer justice in the world than that
    which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.
    Peire Cardenal (c. 1180–1272)

    Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
    In thy most need to go by thy side.
    Anonymous. Knowledge, in Everyman, act 1, l. 522 (c. 1509-1519)

    I’m a Sunday School teacher, and I’ve always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself—a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don’t permit us to achieve perfection.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)