Quotes of Patronage - somelinesforyou

“ Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ If a patron buys from an artist who needs money the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ”

- Ezra

“ I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us. ”

- Greg Norman

“ Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ”

- John Howe

“ They came, they saw, they did a little shopping. ”

- Unknown

“ Shopping is my cardio. ”

- Sarah Jessica Parker

“ I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Death favours those that favour death. ”

- Nick Cave

“ I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ”

- Eliza Farnham

“ Character is power. It makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ”

- John Howe

“ I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. ”

- John Updike

“ If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay — in solid cash — the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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