Quotes for All
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 fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body’s weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, … Read more
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach. Edgar Guest
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, … Read more
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings–honors, treasures, beautiful women–accessible even to cowards. Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune’s false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul’s most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. Francis Beaumont
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies’ fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. Francine Mathews
Labor is rest–from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work–and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work–thou shalt ride over Care’s coming billow; Lie not down wearied ‘neath Woe’s weeping willow! … Read more
Lie not down wearied ‘neath Woe’s weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will. Frances Sargent Osgood
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 this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a … Read more