Top 146 Best Brother Quotes & Sayings 2023

 Best Brother Quotes

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

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. Epictetus

Brothers are what best friends can never be. Unknown

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

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass”. “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys”. Harmon Kellebrew

Your brother is always the first male friend you will have in your life. Ritu Ghatourey

When your son grows up, become his brother. Arabic proverb

True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita Click to tweet

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

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

Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference and no matter the issue. Byron Pulsifer

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Richard Bach

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

You are not my friend, you are my brother, my friend. Jaroslaw Jarzabowski

The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. Ursula K. Le Guin

Equality lies only in human moral dignity… Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. Charlotte Gray

When I had money everyone called me brother. Polish proverb

It takes two men to make one brother. Israel Zangwill

A brother is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit. Unknown (This is one of my favorite brother quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours.

Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. Mother Teresa

My brother is worth a thousand of your friend. Cersei Lannister (Game Of Thrones)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. John Paul II

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. Martin Luther King Jr

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. Malcolm X

It’s better that we feel something for each other rather than behave like corpses toward one another, the more so because as long as one has no real right to be called a corpse by being legally dead, it smacks of hypocrisy or at least childishness to pose as such. Vincent Van Gogh

Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. Oscar Wilde

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong. Barry White

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight. John F. Kennedy

There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal. Prince Harry

We came into the world like brother and brother, and now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. William Shakespeare

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight. Liam Gallagher (Oasis)

My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me. Rod Stewart

My brother is really, really slow. Usain Bolt

It’s rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I’m talking about. Eli Manning

I’m the opposite of jealous. Eli Manning

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. Peyton Manning

I’m the best Manning. Peyton Manning

Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell

Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! Psalm 133:1

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. Benjamin Franklin

 Short Brother Quotes

It is our suffering that brings us together. Ursula K. Le Guin

God blesses him who helps his brother. Ahmad Shah Massood

Because I have a brother I’ll always have a friend. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)

There’s no buddy like a brother. Unknown

Brothers make the best friends. Unknown

Everything I am, you helped me be. Unknown

We’re all just walking each other home. Ram Dass

All men are brothers. Lailah Gifty Akita

Two happy days are seldom brothers. Bulgarian proverb

Silence is a brother of delight. Arabic proverb

Let brotherly love continue.

 Heart Touching Brother Quotes

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. Persian proverb

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Baron de Montesquieu

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. Unknown

I believe in one thing, that only a life lived for others is a life worth living. Albert Einstein

Sibling relationships – and 80% 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 distance and closeness, warmth, loyalty and distrust. Erica E. Goode

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

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

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you. Carol Ann Albright Eastman

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu

 Funny Brother Quotes

I’m the oldest, I make the rules. I’m in the middle, I’m the reason we have rules. I’m the youngest the rules don’t apply to me. Unknown.

You and I are brothers. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up… after I finish laughing. Unknown

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself. Henny Youngman

Brothers are children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. Sam Levenson

Home is wherever my bunch of crazies are. Unknown

I smile because you’re my brother and I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it. Unknown (See also: smiling quotes)

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

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time! Matt Barr

When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel. Dan Pearce

Big Brother is watching… look busy. Brandon Boyd

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

I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom. Bob Hope

 Deep/ Inspirational Brother Quotes

At the narrow passage, there is no brother and no friend. Bedouin proverb

A trial between brothers has no winners or losers. Ekonda proverb

I am smiling because you are my brother. I am laughing because there is nothing you can do about. Unknown

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be. Robert Mapplethorpe

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

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. Prophet Muhammad

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity. Arlen Specter

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother’s keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. Eric Hoffer

Three brothers, three fortresses. Portuguese proverb

Sleep is the brother of death. Chinese proverb

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival. Carlos P. Romulo

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

If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. Marlon Brando

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. Edwin Markham

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear. Maya Angelou

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 1 John 3:17

A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. Ali Ibn Abi Talib

People are of two types: they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran

A bad brother is far better than no brother. Swahili proverb

 Brother Quotes About Brotherhood

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi

A friend forgives quicker than enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend. Amit Kalantri

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. James Boswell

Brother: a person who is there when you need him; someone who picks you up when you fall; a person who sticks up for you when no one else will; a brother is always a friend. Unknown

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. James Boswell

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke

A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. Heywood Broun

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden. Maria Montessori

Being brother and sister means being there for each other. Unknown

Not always eye to eye, but always heart to heart. Unknown

I can’t promise to solve all your problems, but I can promise you won’t have to face them alone. Unknown

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate. Cate Blanchett

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. Mike Norton

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. Mike Norton

I love you, my brother, whoever you are – whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. Kahlil Gibran

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful. Doug Cooper

 Brother Quotes From A Sister

That’s the function of big brothers… to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing. Susan Beth Pfeffer

No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. Michael Franti

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

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them. Esther Friesner

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. Elizabeth Fishel

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

I love you, you were there for me, you protected me, and most of all, you loved me. We’d fight, scream, and argue, but, under it all, is a love. That only exists, in a brother, and a sister. Unknown

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong. Jose Carreras

The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other. Unknown

Hold my hand big sister all the years through, Hold my hand little brother for I will always love and protect you. Unknown

Like branches on a tree… we may grow in different directions, but our roots remain as one. Unknown

Best friends are the siblings from different parents. Unknown

There can be no companion better than a brother and there can be no friend better than a sister. Unknown

I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings, were funny. Martin Short

 Missing Brother Quotes

Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it. Calla Quinn

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again. Ray Bradbury

I don’t miss you and you alone, I miss you and me together. Unknown

You may be out of my sight but never out of my mind. Unknown

Not only had my brother disappeared, but – and bear with me here – a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. John Corey Whaley

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies. Marcus Luttrell

How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do. Karen Harrington

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. Edna St Vincent Millay

God is our neighbour when our brother is absent. Swahili proverb

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards

Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. Ranata Suzuki

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Lamartine

Once you love someone, they stay in your heart forever. Nita (Brother Bear, Disney)

Big Brother Quotes

Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters well, we should be able to hit as hard as we like, shouldn’t we

Rick Riordan

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

Marc Brown

I enjoyed being your little sister. Yeah, just wanna say thank you for being there.

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A brother is a friend given by Nature.

Jean Baptiste Legouve

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Jane Austen

Who knows you better than your own brother?

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother’s brother.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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

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

Hesiod