Patron Quotes

124 quotes by 114 authors

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his… — Honore de Balzac
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your… — P T Barnum
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money… — Warren Beatty
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa
I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very… — Rick Mercer
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the… — Ezra Pound
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we… — Micheal Mac Liammoir
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very… — Michael Milken
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.… — Israel Albert Horowitz
In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a… — Steve Young
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of… — Ian McDiarmid
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous… — Ronald Reagan
I want to be like the patron saint of reality — Fiona Apple
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts — Albert C. Barnes
Throughout history, ideas need patrons. — Matt Kibbe
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be… — Saint Francis de Sales

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