
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
Book I, epistle xviii, line 84
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
“When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out”
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-1,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/
1980s
Context: Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
Here's Your Sign: Live! (2004)
Here's Your Sign
“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”
“141. Love your neighbor, yet pull not downe your hedge.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The Apprentice, Series 3