Side arms. [ French ]
Every man has his weak side. [ J. T. Headley ]
One on God's side is a majority. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Love should not be all on one side. [ Proverb ]
His failings lean'd to virtue's side. [ Goldsmith ]
Pull down your hat on the windy side. [ Proverb ]
Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
The losing side is full of suspicion. [ Syrus ]
The wronged side is always the safest. [ Sibbes ]
God on our side, doubt not of victory. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let the other side also have a hearing. [ Seneca ]
The grave has a door on its inner side. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Dark error's other hidden side is truth. [ Victor Hugo ]
Here eglantine embalm'd the air,
Hawthorne and hazel mingled there;
The primrose pale, and violet flower.
Found in each cliff a narrow bower;
Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side.
Emblems of punishment and pride,
Group'd their dark hues with every stain
The weather-beaten crags retain. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He could distinguish and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. [ Butler ]
The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. [ Virgil ]
Courtesy on one side can never last long. [ Proverb ]
When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy. [ Cervantes ]
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And by his side rode loathsome gluttony.
Deformed creature, on a filthy swine;
His belly was up-blown with luxury,
And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne. [ Spenser ]
He knows which side of his bread is buttered. [ Proverb ]
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side? [ Proverb ]
And even his failings leaned to virtue's side. [ Goldsmith ]
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. [ Publius Syrus ]
It is firmness that makes the gods on our side. [ Voltaire ]
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;
Love laps his wings on either side the heart
Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts,
So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
But their voices are drowned in the dashing tide. [ Nancy A. W. Priest ]
In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side. [ Proverb ]
Under ground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord.
Grossly familiar, side by side consume. [ Blair ]
On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. [ Horace ]
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn,
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. [ Jean Ingelow ]
The soul of a choleric man is ever by the fire-side. [ Proverb ]
He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none. [ Proverb ]
Look at the bright side of a failure as well as the dark. [ Anon ]
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage), out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their graves they rise.
Angels - that, side by side, upon our way,
Walk with and warn us! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything. [ Rivarol ]
To keep the best place (the highest side of the pavement). [ French Proverb ]
Whenever you find Humor, you find Pathos close by its side. [ Whipple ]
The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fire-side. [ Proverb ]
Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side. [ Proverb ]
A house built by the way-side is either too high or too low. [ Proverb ]
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. [ Napoleon I ]
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. [ Addison ]
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. [ J. Stuart Mill ]
The grass may be greener on the other side but it is still grass
An ass may be laden with gold but it is still an ass. [ Unknown ]
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. [ Pascal ]
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. [ E. Gibbon ]
A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command. [ Jean Paul ]
Barbarism is no longer at our frontiers; it lives side by side with us. [ Amiel ]
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]
The great art of superiority is getting hold of people by their right side. [ Mirabeau ]
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. [ Cervantes ]
Like Teague's cocks, that fought one another, though all were of the same side. [ Proverb ]
On this side and on that, men see their friends drop off like leaves in autumn. [ Blair ]
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. [ Cowper ]
Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. [ Froude ]
To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. [ Goldsmith ]
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. [ Johnson ]
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. [ Latimer ]
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadow-side of a good. [ George MacDonald ]
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am [ William Shakespeare ]
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another thing to wish to be on the side of truth. [ Richard Whately ]
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. [ Luther ]
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love. It is the faithless who know love's tragedies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
He who climbs above the cares of this world and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. [ Spurgeon ]
The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. [ Addison ]
Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design. [ Renan ]
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. [ John Ruskin ]
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. [ E. H. Chapin ]
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Intellectually the difficulties of unbelief are as great as those of belief, while morally the argument is wholly on the side of belief. [ Dr. T. Arnold ]
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]
The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. [ Dryden ]
Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. [ South ]
Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. [ M. de Guerin ]
He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose: dazzled and charmed, he called that woman bride,
and his first sleep became his last repose. [ Besser ]
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]
We want more loving knowledge to enable us to enjoy life, and we require to cultivate the art of making the most of the common means and appliances of enjoyment which lie about us on every side. [ Samuel Smiles ]
To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. [ Froude ]
If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them; consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. [ Colton ]
However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]
In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. [ Fielding ]
A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side.
If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]