brothers quotes

For a'that, and a'that, It's comin' yet for a'that, That Man to Man the warld o'er Shall brothers be, for a'that.

- Robert Burns
  'For a' that and a' that', stanza 5.

My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.'

- Padraic Colum
  Wild Earth,'She Moved through the Fair'.

So the two brothers and their murdered man Rode past fair Florence.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil', stanza 27.

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in theunending nightbrothers who see now theyare truly brothers.

- Archibald MacLeish
  On the first pictures from the moon. In the NewYork Times, 25 Dec.

Working for Warner Brothers was like fucking a porcupineit's a hundred pricks against one.

-Wilson Mizner
Quoted in David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).

All men are brothers, but, thank God, theyaren't all brothers-in-law.

- Anthony Dymoke Powell
  At Lady Molly's, ch.4.

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  His opinion on the International Exhibition of Modern Art in NewYork, popularly known asTheArmoury Show.'A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition', in The Outlook (9 Mar).