side quotes

A Walk on the Wild Side.

- Nelson Algren
  Title of novel.

Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide. In thy most need to go by thy side.

-Anonymous
c.1485  Knowledge speaks to Everyman. Everyman, l.522^3.

   Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly,God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.

-Anonymous
c.1575  Song, included in the play Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 2. William Stevenson (c.1530^75) and John Still (1543^1608) have both been credited with authorship of the play, but the song probably predates it.

Who is on the L's side? let him come unto me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus 32:26.

And he lifted up his face to the window, and said,Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:32.

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John19:34.

Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Thomas. St  John 20:25.

The very knowledge that he lived in vain, That all was over on this side the tomb, Had made Despair a smilingness assume.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza16.

Th' have left thee naked, Lord,O that they had! Thisgarment too I would they had denied. Thee with thyself they have too richly clad, Opening the purple wardrobe of thy side. O never could be found garments too good For thee to wear, but these, of thine own blood.

- Richard Crashaw
  'On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody'.

There are times in politics whenyou must be on theright side and lose.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  In the Observer,11 Feb.

It takes up no falling cause; fights no uphill battle; advocatesnogreat principle; holdsout a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure individual. It is 'ever strong upon the stronger side'.

-William Hazlitt
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world.That'swhy it almost alwayshastobe onthesideof the underdog.

- Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
  In Ms magazine.

We must recollect†what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.

-William known as  theYounger Pitt
  Speech, 22 Jul, on the breaking of the Peace of Amiens and the resumption of the war with Napoleon. Quoted in Speeches of the Rt. Hon.William Pitt (1806), vol.4.

In a civil war, a general must knowand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practicehe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.

- Henry Reed
  Not a DrumWas Heard:TheWar Memoirs of General Gland, unpublished radio play.

You have no part with lads who fought And laughed and suffered at my side. Your fugues and symphonies have brought No memory of my friends who died.

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'Dead Musicians'.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always onesidetothem, and they think there isno other, because they don't see itbut there is.

-Iron
  Lyndall.The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

- Augustus Montague Toplady
  Hymn.

The great temple of fiction has no well-marked front portal; most devoteesarrivethrough a side door, and not dressed for worship.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Self-Consciousness, III.'GettingTheWords Out'.