Genius has no brother. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep! [ Shelley ]
One brother may help another. [ Proverb ]
Eat well is drink wells brother. [ Proverb ]
No author ever spared a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another. [ Gay ]
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]
How fast has brother followed
From sunshine to the sunless land. [ Wordsworth ]
And he who serves his brother best,
Gets nearer God than all the rest.
Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. [ Bovee ]
America, - half-brother of the world! [ Bailey ]
Oh! call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee -
Where is my brother gone? [ Mrs. Hemans ]
The slothful man is the beggar's brother. [ Proverb ]
A brother is a friend provided by nature. [ Legouvé père ]
Authors alone, with more than savage rage,
Unnatural war with brother authors wage. [ Churchill ]
Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. [ Gay ]
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relieve my languish, and restore the light. [ Samuel Daniel ]
Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another. [ Pope ]
Zounds! I was never so be thumped with words
Since I first called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare, King John, Act II. Sc.1 ]
For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! [ Burns ]
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart. [ Cowper ]
That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. [ Lamartine ]
I would have a good horse for myself, not for my brother. [ Proverb ]
What is mine is my own, what is my brother's is his and mine. [ Proverb ]
The brother had rather see his sister rich, than make her so. [ Proverb ]
We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. [ Bible ]
A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort; but a friend is both. [ Proverb ]
Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. [ Boufflers ]
If you do no more than barely wish me well, you are no brother of mine. [ Proverb ]
A father or a brother may be hated zealously, and loved civilly or naturally. [ Milton ]
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. [ Bible ]
If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if be repent, forgive him. [ Bible ]
I was never so bethumped with words since first I called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare ]
O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the peace of God is there. [ Whittier ]
He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? [ St. John ]
Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's. [ Jesus ]
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? [ Bible ]
First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. [ Jesus ]
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. [ Lamartine ]
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? [ Thackeray ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. [ Carlyle ]
I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]
Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]
The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]
Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]