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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 |
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| 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, |
| 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, |
| 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," |
| 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 |