Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
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.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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.
There's no better friend than a sister.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
It takes two men to make one brother.
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