Siblings

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well,—parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses.

There is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

[ Suicide note by a child who killed himself and two siblings :] Done because we are too menny.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

 

Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

 

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

For there is no friend like a sister

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

There’s so much horseshit about babies; schools change every ten years. [My sister] raised a couple of nice ones by forcing them to be considerate or leave the room.... I think people act the way they’re expected to act.

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

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.