Tough is an adjective and may describe:
- Toughness, the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed
- Machismo, prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity
- Emotional resilience
Tough may also refer to:
Famous quotes containing the word tough:
“Relying on any one disciplinary approachtime-out, negotiation, tough love, the star systemputs the parenting team at risk. Why? Because children adapt to any method very quickly; todays effective technique becomes tomorrows worn dance.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the tough guy; today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
“O.K., Marlowe, I said to myself, youre a tough guy. Youve been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until youre as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now lets see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on.”
—John Paxton (19111985)