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Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried. -- Os Guinness
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate. -- Edmund Spenser
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery. -- Samuel Johnson
I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it. -- John Paul DeJoria
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. -- Ambrose Bierce
He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand -- Henry Austin Dobson
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 real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare. -- Rick Mercer
I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. -- John Paul DeJoria
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. -- Quentin Tarantino
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. -- Edwin Lutyens
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. -- Samuel Johnson
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. -- Aldous Huxley
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. -- Alton Brown
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
Is not a patron 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
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life. -- W. Ian Thomas
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception. -- Terence McKenna
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 artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. -- Ezra Pound
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 assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. -- Samuel Johnson
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes. -- George Washington
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. -- Thomas Paine
It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons, -- Vladimir Putin
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. -- Martin Filler
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 employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. -- China Mieville
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve. -- William Barclay
I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists. -- Tippi Hedren
She was a patron saint of the peripheral. -- Jane Howard
I want to be like the patron saint of reality. -- Fiona Apple
William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. -- Kinky Friedman
All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers. -- Stephen Rodrick
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel? -- Adam Savage
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience. -- Danny Meyer
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so. -- John Battelle
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. -- John Aubrey
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 Pound
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. -- A. N. Wilson
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants. -- Mohsin Hamid
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. -- Ciaran Hinds
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. -- Ciaran Hinds
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art. -- Gustav Krupp
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. -- David Talbot
Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine. -- Douglas Brinkley
Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took. -- Ryan McGinley
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services. -- Will Self
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name. -- Karen DeCrow
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it? -- Heather Brooke
Each lost day has its patron saint! -- Bret Harte
Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign. -- Rachel Caine
I want to be like the patron saint of reality -- Fiona Apple
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. -- Janadas Devan
Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better! -- Neal Shusterman
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing. -- Lino Rulli
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. -- Peter Shaffer
Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. -- Kenneth Anger
It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not. -- Drew Carey
I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. -- Jill Sobule
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. -- Colin Meloy
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. -- Sophocles
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival. -- Terry Gilliam
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music. -- Henry David Thoreau
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon. -- Shana Alexander
The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers. -- Charles Dickens
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.] -- Plautus
When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today. -- Samuel G. Freedman
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 the arts because he goes to the opera. -- Ian McDiarmid
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 a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously. -- Saint Francis de Sales

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