beholder quotes

The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest† The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692

-John D(avison) Rockefeller
Quoted inW J Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902).

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

- Sir Philip Sidney
  The Defence of Poetry.