Twin Brother Quotes:

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Lonely, Feeling Lonely, Doubted

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

topic: Brother, Honesty, Twins, Twin Brother

I hope my twin brother will look exactly like me but more sporty.

- Tenzing Norgay

topic: Brother, Looks, Twins, Twin Brother

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

- Homer

source: Iliad XVI.681

topic: Brother, Sleep, Twins, Twin Brother

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “Sir Nigel: A Novel of the Hundred Years' War”, p.125, Courier Corporation

topic: Brother, Hate, Hot, Twin Brother

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

- Tryon Edwards

topic: Brother, Honesty, Truth, Twin Brother

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Brother, Judgement, Saint, Twin Brother

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Happiness, Brother, Optimism, Twin Sister, Twin Brother

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like something.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Brother, Stars, Growing Up, Twin Brother

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

- Theodore T. Munger

topic: Brother, Poverty, Debt, Twin Brother

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

topic: Brother, Children, War, Sturdy, Twin Brother

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Brother, Growing Up, Successful, Successful Man, American Business

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

topic: Twin Brother

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Brother, Children, Twins, Twin Brother

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

- Vernon Lee

source: Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

topic: Brother, Believe, Thinking, Twin Brother

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Brother, Humility, Careers, Provoked, Twin Brother

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

- Theodore T. Munger

topic: Brother, Secret, Debt, Twin Brother

The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

topic: Brother, Inspiration, Animal, Untamed, Artemis

Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.

- Luke Treadaway

topic: Brother, Interesting, Actors, Twin Brother

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Brother, Art, Kids, Twin Brother

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

- Mickey Mantle

topic: Baseball, Brother, Home, Twin Brother

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

- Otto Hermann Kahn

source: Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

topic: Brother, Freedom, Past, Autocracy, Twin Brother

I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

- Nicolas Cage

topic: Brother, Cutting, Tennis, Tennis Balls, Twin Brother

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

- Eddie Izzard

source: "'I'm just a bloke talking crap'". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

topic: Brother, Thinking, Talking, Twin Brother

Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

- James Joyce

topic: Brother, Beer, Son, Deathless, Vat

My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.

- Peter Buffett

source: "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

topic: Milwaukee, Mom Dad, Omaha, Twin Brother, Personal Connection

Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

- Richard Selzer

topic: Brother, Cutting, Medicine, Pictorial, Twin Brother

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sister, Time, Brother, Speed Of Light, Travel Light

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

- Shawn Ashmore

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Brother, Growing Up, Chronicles, Twin Brother

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister