And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
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And bitter waxed the fray;
Brother with brother spake no word
When they met in the way.
JEAN INGELOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Yes,” Bernarde quipped, “Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us ...
KATERINA MARTINEZ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain r...
BIBLE The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If only I knew what I know
I'd make it a point to say so.
THE FRAY I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was wai...
THE FRAY I never knew I never knew that everything was falling through That everyone I knew was waiting on a ...
THE FRAY Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
THE FRAY ...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...
THE FRAY And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he h...
BIBLE Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.
POPE PAUL VI I'm leading the way for my brother.
JOSH BULLOCKS I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my bro...
DIANA LOPEZ One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too in...
GEORGE ORWELL At the narrow passage, there is no brother and no friend.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend
ARABIAN PROVERB They are free, and my brother is rotting in the ground.
JOSE CASTRO When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nic...
ED ANDERSON I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come hom...
CONN IGGULDEN My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller...
STEPHEN COLBERT At some times, they say I am their Muslim brother and that they mean me no harm.
EDWARD CARABALLO Allison and Kate (her daughters) were 7 and 4 (when their brother passed away), and I wanted them to...
ERIN HULSHIZER I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neig...
ARABIC PROVERB I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the ne...
BEDOUIN PROVERB I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neig...
BEDOUIN PROVERB but the family is fighting back -- brother against brother.
JIM RILEY I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep...
BIBLE Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.
CHRIS BURKE We came into the world like brother and brother;And now let's go hand in hand, not one before anothe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My brother knew this young lady. They went to high school together. It's not like they met one anoth...
ROBERT BURNS He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the mome...
SARAH J. MAAS When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness
HESIOD My brother is my prince. He listens to every word, to every comma after every word, that you are say...
KIM REEVES So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in ...
BIBLE I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
HULK HOGAN Who thinks your little brother will run off to Iraq when no one is looking.
HAYDER HASSAN For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all...
NASH GRIER With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I g...
MATT DRUDGE They weren't just brother and sister. They were kindred spirits.
SETH GREENBERG When man to man shall be friend and brother.
GERALD MASSEY When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
EDEN SHER At the same time Big Brother is watching you, you can watch Big Brother more effectively, ... [Big B...
JARON LANIER My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
GAVIN O'CONNOR My sister and brother-in-law were very impressed with how the cows were milked.
JOANNE HOYT This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.
BOB NEWHART We concluded a three-year arc last year with the brother, ... and the little broken family that the ...
DAVID CARUSO It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show t...
DUSTIN MILLIGAN I love my brother. I miss my brother.
RANDY QUAID I have a younger brother.
FREDDIE HIGHMORE When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphan...
WAYNE DYER I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting...
DOROTHY DAY When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
JOE FRAZIER The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out ther...
MICHAEL EALY I am so in love with my brother right now!
ANGELINA JOLIE In dealing even with your brother have witnesses, though laughingly
HESIOD The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"
A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE After a few rings, my brother, Duduzani, went to ascertain who was at the door. When he peered throu...
JACOB ZUMA He's been there for me when I needed him. He's like a brother. We just have a love for one another.
CARL JACKSON When I had money, everyone called me brother
POLISH PROVERB The bubble winked at me, and said,
"You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."
OLIVER HERFORD The bubble winked at me and said,'You'll miss me brother, when you're dead'.
OLIVER HERFORD I've never lived in the 'hood, I've never lived in squalor and I'm not black. But I have an older br...
PAUL POTENZA A brother is one in whose presence you forget your own pain.
APURVA GAGLANI A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. ...
THURSTON CLARKE And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up aga...
BIBLE There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; ...
GEORGE BORROW He was like my big brother, ... He really took care of me -- made sure I met everybody, and played p...
BILLY ANDRADE This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.
RIC FLAIR It just hurts them. They know who he was and they remember him that way. Not as a gang member, but a...
GUSS MAGBY When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Deat...
ALFRED TENNYSON And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world.
LAURA ANDERSON His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew.
JOHN COREY WHALEY Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
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