"fellows" in the Big Book

He may be one of the finest fellows in the world.

The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God’s universe.

No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.

We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.

Let him tell you about it: “I was much impressed with what you fellows said about alcoholism, and I frankly did not believe it would be possible for me to drink again.

I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.

Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.

This is the one he likes his fellows to see.

I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.

Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.

We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies.

He remarked: “I’m mighty glad you fellows got over your drinking.

High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.

“Who are you fellows, and why this private room?

You fellows know your stuff all right, but I don’t see what good it’ll do.

You fellows are somebody.

After a bit, he said, “The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense.

A community thirty miles away has fifteen fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows.