“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Between a brother and a friend, the choice is clear.”
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
Mobutu announcing the break in diplomatic relations between Zaire and Israel at the United Nations Security Council, November 4, 1973. Young and Turner, p. 138
“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”
VIII. 585–586 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
“92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort; but a Friend is both.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet
Hope on, hope ever, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician
Quotes on Philanthropy, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=99c18960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.