Best Stout Quotes
57 Stout quotes by 51 unique authors
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My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man…
— Maria Jeritza
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A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape…
— Ralph P. Martin
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Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I…
— Walt Whitman
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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…
— Israel Shenker
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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
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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…
— Augustus William Hare
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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
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Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.
— Tibullus
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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…
— Plutarch
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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all…
— Cennino Cennini
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In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a…
— Marie de France
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Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
— Jonathan Weiner
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I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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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…
— Jane Austen
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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…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind…
— Milan Kundera
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
— Anne Sexton
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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it…
— Aristophanes
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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and…
— Walt Whitman
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Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
— George Orwell
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Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who…
— Grace Paley
Who Wrote These Stout Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 57 Stout Quotes, led by these top contributors: