Worthy Patron

Famous quotes containing the words worthy and/or patron:

    Tonight, grave sir, both my poore house, and I
    Doe equally desire your companie:
    Not that we thinke us worthy such a ghest,
    But that your worth will dignifie our feast,
    Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.
    John Updike (b. 1932)