Quotes about Brothers

Boys will be boys...

Peruse this collection of quotes about brothers to find a quote to express your sentiments about your brother.

I don't know about you... but my relationship with my older brother was tumultuous. I think the comparison made by my father between me and my brother set us up for a very strained relationship.

I used to get good grades in school and my brother did not.

I dreaded grade card day because I knew I'd be a target of my brother's frustration after my father would scold him saying "why can't you be more like your sister and get good grades?"

One day my brother's rage got the best of him and he put my head in a vice and beat me with a hammer. After that point, I sustained a traumatic head injury that changed my life. I lost my photographic memory and was no longer was an intellectual threat to him anymore.

I have but one heartfelt message to my brother:

I truly felt so bad for you having to be constantly compared to me, I never held you responsible for my injuries. I hope you will come to peace with that situation as I have.

Love,

Linda

Illustration of...

Buy This at Allposters.com

About Brothers

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
~ Marc Brown

It takes two men to make one brother.
~ Israel Zangwill

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

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
~ Jean Baptiste Legouve

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.
~ Gregg Levoy

A brother is a friend provided by nature.
~ Legouve Pere

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
~ Leonardo Dicaprio

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Big Brother

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Birthday Games

Birthday Bingo

This is your classic Bingo game pre-filled with Birthday items.

With our Game Card Generator, you get a different Birthday Bingo Card for each player- even if you have 200 players! Call card included.

---

Birthday Charades and Pictionary

Keep the entire group entertained for hours!

Play in teams or individually in this fun game of Charades or Pictionary with over 100 different cards.

---

It’s All about the Birthday Star

Have guests fill in this questionnaire about the party star and find out who really knows them the best!

---

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Brother as Friend

A friend is a brother who was once a bother.
~ Unknown

All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers 'til the end.
~ Unknown

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Brother in Time of Need

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
~ King Solomon

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Brotherhood

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.
~ Maya Angelou

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
~ Hindu Proverb

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

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
~ Ernst Toller

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Brotherly Bond / Love

There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.
~ Terri Guillemets

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
~ Hesiod

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can 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.
~ St Francis of Assisi

We are not only our brother's keeper; in countless large and small ways, we are our brother's maker.
~ Bonaro Overstreet

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
~ Louis Farrakhan

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Brothers as Adults

As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care,but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!
~ Catherine Pulsifer, Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Family

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~ Clara Ortega

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Funny

Want to send a
REALLY Funny eCard?

Imagine the surprise on the recipient's face when they receive a hilarious ecard with their face and/or your face on the animated characters.

Must see!

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ― Victor Borge

---

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
~ Unknown

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
~ Winston Pendelton

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

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by ‘survival of the fittest’.
~ Bill Cosby

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Like a Brother

A brother is a friend God gave you; A friend is a brother your heart chose.
~ Proverb

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~ Homer

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Little Brother

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers.
~ Terri Guillemets

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Nostalgia

Give this Unique Gift!

This is a great gift for birthdays, family reunions, or any other special occasion.

Imagine the fun of putting together a puzzle with friends and family that captures those special moments in life you want to last forever.

“A photograph can be an instant
of life captured for eternity
that will never cease
looking back at you.”
― Brigitte Bardot

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

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.
~ Rose Macaulay

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Proverbs

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
~ Vietnamese Proverb

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
~ Hindu Proverb

A brother is a friend God gave you; A friend is a brother your heart chose.
~ Proverb

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Quotes by Famous People

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

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by ‘survival of the fittest’.
~ Bill Cosby

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
~ Homer

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
~ King Solomon

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
~ Leonardo Dicaprio

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr

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.
~ Maya Angelou

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can 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.
~ St Francis of Assisi

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Sentimental

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
~ Unknown

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
~ Unknown

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

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~ Clara Ortega

A brother is a friend provided by nature.
~ Legouve Pere

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.
~ Rose Macaulay

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Sibling Rivalry

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.
~ Gregg Levoy

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.
~ Anna Quindlan

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Siblings

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
~ Marian Sandmaier

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.”
~Jane Mersky Leder

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, Mansfield Park, 1814

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~ Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.
~ Pamela Dugdale

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

Spiritual

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

Return to Index of Quotes about Brothers

---

Return to Family Quotes - from Quotes about Brothers
Return to Inspiration Oasis Home Page

Like this Page?