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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and
feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of
innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ~James
Boswell
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
~Marc Brown
It takes two men to make one brother. ~Israel Zangwill
There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other
love like the love from a brother. ~Astrid Alauda
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or
brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.
Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
~Maya Angelou
A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown
A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author
Unknown
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our
personal stories to the inevitable dusk. ~Susan Scarf Merrell
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage,
just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~Sam Levenson
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it
down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan
Thomas
A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Jean Baptiste Legouve
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but
my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three. ~Author
Unknown
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and
they'll settle for a puppy every time. ~Winston Pendelton
All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers 'til the end.
~Author Unknown
Never make a companion equal to a brother. ~Hesiod
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on,
someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown
A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with
the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. ~Marian
Sandmaier
Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had
let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the
avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or
how far we've traveled. ~Jane Mersky Leder
Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
~Hindu Proverb
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first
associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their
power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen,
Mansfield Park, 1814
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
~Antisthenes
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her
sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega
After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors -
seem like big brothers. ~Astrid Alauda
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and
sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's
hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and
secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~Clara Ortega
Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their
differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this,
we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf
Merrell
Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least
one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface
after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a
thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and
distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News
& World Report, 10 January 1994
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us
about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often
the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick
and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And
blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as
when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he
might not, in love, say before his face. ~St Francis of Assisi
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you
eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord
Chesterfield
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother
would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not
raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon
Killebrew
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard
that food came out his nose. ~Garrison Keillor
As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care,
but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!
~Catherine Pulsifer
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that
binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ~Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
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Quotations about Brothers