Brotherly Quotes

• Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Brother

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Apathy, Interest

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  Barbara Deming

  Men, Brotherhood, Being Free

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Way, Brotherly Love, Used

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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  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

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Girl, Wedding

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• If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

  Bertrand Russell

  Football, Team, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.77, Routledge

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• Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Deeds, Neighbor

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• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Feelings, Common

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

  Cyril Cusack

  Acting, World, Sisterly

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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• When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

  Antisthenes

  Brother, Strong, Sibling

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• It takes two men to make one brother.

  Israel Zangwill

  Motivational, Brother, Sibling

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• 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.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Sister, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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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

  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

  Daniel Pearce

  Brother, Men, Two

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• 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

  Sister, Friends, Brother

  James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

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