He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashedinto 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 thecurrent... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
Quotes about stout (16 Quotes)
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.
Never give up If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of 'Never give up.'
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
If your love be forced from home,
And you dare enough, and your heart be stout,
The world is your own to roam.
In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.
Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that.
Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs. From generation to generation the hordes swept in, ran wild and savage and there was no deliverance, valiance, and revolt. How the mighty are fallen, the great in spirit and stout of heart, walking to their death with a halo of eternity. (reference to the Holocaust)
The Dead-Beat He dropped, more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could kick him to his feet Just blinked at my revolver, blearily Didn't appear to know a war was on, Or see the blasted trench at which he stared. 'I'll do 'em in,' he whined, 'if this hand's spared, I'll murder them, I will.' A low voice said, 'It's Blighty, p'raps, he sees his pluck's all gone, Dreaming of all the valiant, that aren't dead Bold uncles, smiling ministerially Maybe his brave young wife, getting her fun In some new home, improved materially. It's not these stiffs have crazed him nor the Hun.' We sent him down at last, out of the way. Unwounded - stout lad, too, before that strafe. Malingering Stretcher-bearers winked, 'Not half' Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh 'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray'
And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
Handsome and well shaped, stout hearted, vehement, eager, cruel in war, zealous in attack, little fearing death not revengeful but fickle, presumptuous, rash, boastful deceitful very suspicious, especially of strangers.
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'
John Grubby, who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate's knee.