Side Quotes
6361 Side quotes by 4068 unique authors
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
— Boethius
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
— Edwin Markham
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
— John Heywood
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for…
— Blaise Pascal
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When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide…
— John Lennon
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North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid…
— Ellen Glasgow
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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead,…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the…
— Robertson Davies
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
— John Stuart Mill
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There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there…
— Roland Barthes
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.
— John Wayne
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New…
— Horace Walpole
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
— Calvin Trillin
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The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn…
— Ruth Benedict
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A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers.…
— Larry Gelbart
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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the…
— John Lahr
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
— Pindar
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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
— Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy
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May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so…
— Paul Cezanne
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All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from…
— Jonathan Raban
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There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.…
— Jonathan Raban
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Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to…
— Jonathan Raban
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