Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers.… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Finding a client is a piece of cake. Keeping a client is a tug of war.” — Utibe Samuel Mbom Copy Share Image
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. — John Howe Copy Share Image
“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.” — David Galula Copy Share Image
