Top Stern Quotes

There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make...

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Stern Definition

(n.) The black tern.

(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.

(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.

(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.

(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.