patron quotes

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155^60.

Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern ona manstruggling for life inthewater, and,whenhehas reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Letter to Lord Chesterfield,7 Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Patron.Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

The patron saint of journalists, officially named by the church, is St.Francisde Sales.Thetraditional patronsaint of editors is St.John Bosco. (The protector of computer- age journalists may well be St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of searchers for lost articles.)

-J A, and Clements,Warren McFarlane
  The Globe and Mail Style Book.

No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.

-Tennyson
  The Princess,'Conclusion', l.84^9.