Side Quotes

"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
-Henry David Thoreau

"God is always on the side of the big battalions."
-Voltaire

"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
-Mark Twain

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
-Mark Twain

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
-Aristotle

"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
-Oscar Wilde

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
-Robert Frost

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
-Robert Frost

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."
-Rita Mae Brown

"There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility."
-John F. Kennedy

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
-Scott Westerfeld

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits."
-Charles Kuralt

"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
-Samuel Butler

"The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss."
-Thucydides

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."
-Malcolm X

"In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is."
-Jean Anouilh

"Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
-Frank Lloyd Wright