Quotations about Siblings, Sisters, Brothers
I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends... ~Samuel Johnson, 1758
Bare is shoulder without brother, bare hearth without sister. ~Gaelic proverb
It is impossible to keep a small boy in the house, even in the worst weather, unless he has a sister to torment. ~Mary Wilson Little, Reveries of a Paragrapher, 1897
Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood... ~Louisa May Alcott, "The Sunny Side," An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister. ~Kathleen Bowden (Katherine Mansfield), letter to Jeanne Beauchamp, 1909
...it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: "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
Who was it when we both were young,
First prais'd me with her artless tongue,
And on my neck delighted hung?
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
In thee my soul shall own combin'd
The sister and the friend.
~Katharine Killigrew (c.1530–1583)
...and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
The younger brother hath the more wit. ~Proverb
For we would run about all day,
And when at hide-and-seek we'd play,
Who came to find me where I lay?
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Wortley Montagu, 1727
There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Terri Guillemets
For there is no friend like a sister,
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
~Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1862
It takes two men to make one brother. ~Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917 [Context: brotherhood of humanity
For it was ever our delight,
To love each other day and night,
Nor would I do a thing to spite
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
Two brothers parted 60 years met in Boston. Bet one said, "Where is that necktie of mine?" ~Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Sims, 1923
For thou wert always kind to me,
And it will my ambition be,
To prove a faithful friend to thee,
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
Years have fled by; but the memory of my little angel-sister has never passed from my remembrance. ~Amy Campbell, "A Tale of the 31st of December," Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve, 1872