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.

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

 

Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

 

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For there is no friend like a sister

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