PATRONAGE

Related Subjects: Encouragement, Gifts, Help, Money, Philanthropy

1. "O dear Mother Outline! of wisdom most sage,
   What's the first part of painting?" She said, "Patronage."
   "And what is the second, to please and engage?"
   She frowned like a fury, and said: "Patronage."—BLAKE, On Art and Artists
   

2. The mud of English patronage
   Grows round his feet, and keeps him down.—ROBERT BUCHANAN, Edward Crowhurst
   

3. Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Dictionary
   

4. Is not a patron, my lord [Chesterfield], one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

5. No man's talents, however brilliant, can raise him from obscurity, unless they find scope, opportunity, and also a patron to commend them.—PLINY THE YOUNGER
   

6. What would you have me do?
   Seek for the patronage of some great man,
   And like a creeping vine on a tall tree
   Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone?—EDMOND ROSTAND, Cyrano De Bergerac
   

7. Getting Patronage is the whole art of life. A man cannot have a career without it.—BERNARD SHAW, Captain Brassbound's Conversion