“I'm sitting on the stile, Mary,
Where we sat side by side.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
“I'm sitting on the stile, Mary,
Where we sat side by side.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
“We've got the recording side together and not the playing side.”
Roger Waters (1943) English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd
Melody Maker, August 1967
Music
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author
"The Irish Emigrant" (c. 1860), line 1; p. 105.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)
“The past, the present,
And the future,
Are all side by side,
Hand in hand”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
Song lyrics
“We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.”
Daniel Ellsberg (1931) American economist and whistleblower
Hearts and Minds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film) (1974), a documentary of the Vietnam War
“I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.”
Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
Context: Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.