1.
Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.
Tibullus
2.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Aristotle
4.
I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
P. G. Wodehouse
6.
Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
Sophocles
7.
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 stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.
Aristophanes
10.
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 this mystery here we stand.
Walt Whitman
11.
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
Jonathan Weiner