Stout Quotes

• A stout heart breaks bad luck.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Luck, Break

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.601, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

  Molly O'Neill

  Morning, Uncles, Drinking

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• Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Time, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Chocolate, Style

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

  Horace

  Courage, Adversity, Heart

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• I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Healthy, May

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org

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• A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

  Victor Hugo

  Courage, Heart, May

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5103, Delphi Classics

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• Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

  John Baillie

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Archer, Giving, Wish

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• There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

  John Adams

  Mind, Enemy, Storm

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• As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Father, Tombstone

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7092, Delphi Classics

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• The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

  Patricia Briggs

  World, Shields, Belief

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.3, Penguin

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• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Stress, Struggle

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

  Belle S. Spafford

  Life, Strong, Heart

  Belle S. Spafford (1974). “A woman's reach”

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• Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Confidence, Heart, Men

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.221

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• All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rich, Pity

  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

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• ...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity can the strength to support the physical and spiritual suffering of injury and death be nourished.

  Josef Pieper

  Spiritual, Strong, Support

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Women, Thinking

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• Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

  Tibullus

  Venus, Aids, Hearted

  Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics

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• There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

  Israel Shenker

  House, Spiders, Next

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

  Dave Schulthise

  Pigs, Mind, Ends

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• James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

  Kurt Busch

  Race, Car, Finches

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• Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Light, Useless

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