Supports

Famous quotes containing the word supports:

“The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)