I’m your patron. You’re my protégée. What a patron does is…

Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it…

— Melika Dannese Lux

Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the…

— Erin Morgenstern

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum;…

— Terence McKenna

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan

“If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed…

— Jacqueline Carey

The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous…

— Michelle Malkin

Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who always has…

— Fiona Apple

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with…

— Joseph Addison

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and…

— Craig Johnson

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that…

— Heather Brooke

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

— Stephen Rodrick

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel…

— Laura Whitcomb