Quotes about Brothers
Peruse this collection of quotes about brothers to find a quote to express your sentiments about your brother.
“Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.” ~ Marc Brown“It takes two men to make one brother.” ~ Israel Zangwill “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 “He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.” ~ Gregg Levoy “A brother is a friend provided by nature. “ ~ Legouve Pere “Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.” ~ Leonardo Dicaprio Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” ~ Jane Austen, Mansfield ParkReturn to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“A friend is a brother who was once a bother.” ~ Author Unknown“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 Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” ~ King Solomon Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“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“Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” ~ Hindu Proverb “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” ~ Antisthenes “At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.” ~ Ernst Toller Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.” ~ Terri Guillemets“Never make a companion equal to a brother.” ~ Hesiod “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can 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 “We are not only our brother's keeper; in countless large and small ways, we are our brother's maker. “ ~ Bonaro Overstreet “A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.” ~ Louis Farrakhan Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“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, Inspirational Words of WisdomReturn to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“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 OrtegaReturn to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!” ~ 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 “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 “As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by ‘survival of the fittest’.” ~ Bill Cosby Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“A brother is a friend God gave you; A friend is a brother your heart chose.” ~ Proverb“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” ~ Homer Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” ~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park“After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers.” ~ Terri Guillemets Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.” ~ Garrison Keillor “We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.” ~ Rose Macaulay Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.” ~ Vietnamese Proverb“Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” ~ Hindu Proverb “A brother is a friend God gave you; A friend is a brother your heart chose.” ~ Proverb Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” ~ Antisthenes“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by ‘survival of the fittest’.” ~ Bill Cosby “A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” ~ Homer “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” ~ King Solomon “Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.” ~ Leonardo Dicaprio “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr “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 “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can 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 Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“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 “It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!” ~ Author Unknown “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 “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 “A brother is a friend provided by nature. “ ~ Legouve Pere “We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.” ~ Rose Macaulay Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.” ~ Gregg Levoy“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.” ~ Anna Quindlan Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.” ~ Susan Scarf Merrell“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 “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 “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 Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
“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 Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers
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