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Definition of Beside

Beside

At the side of; on one side of.

Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.

Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.

On one side.

More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.

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Beside Quotations

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
Denis Leary

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Jules Renard

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Samuel Alexander

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.
Alphonsus Liguori

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
John James Audubon

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
Fredrik Bajer

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
Fredrik Bajer

Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
Fay Wray

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Rod Taylor

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
Holly Hunter

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.
Rick Derringer

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
Moustapha Akkad

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?
Otto Dix

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
Luther Allison

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Henry Mayhew

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman

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Beside Translations

beside in Afrikaans is naby, om, langs, by
beside in Dutch is aan, nabij, bij, dichtbij, naast
beside in French is chez
beside in Italian is accosto
beside in Portuguese is ao lado de
beside in Spanish is al lado, junto a
beside in Swedish is sidan om, bredvid

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