Anonymous
Here lies Fred,
Who was alive and is dead:
Had it been his father,
I had much rather;
Had it been his brother,
Still better than another;
Had it been his sister,
No one would have missed her;
Had it been the whole generation,
Still better for the nation.
Belloc Hilaire 1870-1953
‘Heroic Poem upon Wine'
Strong brother in God and last companion,
Wine.
The Book of Common Prayer
The Burial of the Dead, Interment
Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the
ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Traveller
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
Mu heart untravelled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Harburg E.Y. 1898-1963
Brother can you spare a dime?
Hughes Langston 1902-1967
„I,Too"
I,too,sing America.
I am the darker brother.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Rewards and Fairies ‘The Thousandth Man'
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
Leigh H.S. 1837-1883
‘The Twins'
In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother
That folks got taking me for him
And each for one another.
MacDonald George 1824-1905
It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.
Markham Edwin 1852-1940
‘The Man with the Hoe'
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘The Statue in Stocks-Market' (of Charles II)
For though the whole world cannot show such another;
Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother.
Orwell George 1903-1950
Nineteen Eighty-Four
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
Proberbs and Sayings
Russian
Believe not your own brother - believe, instead,your own blind eye.
Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of 1647-1680
‘Upon Nothing'
Nothing, thou elder brother even to shade
Thou hadst a being ere the world was made,
And, well fixed, art alone of ending not afraid.
Smith Adam 1723-1790
Theory of Moral Sentiments
Though our brother is on the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease,
our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.
Wedgwood Josiah 1730-1795
(legend on Wedgwood cameo)
Am I not a man and a brother.
Whittier John Greenleaf 1807-1892
‘Worship'
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother.
Brother quotes,Brother quotations