An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  Quoted in H E Fosdick On Being a Real Person, ch.10.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.

-Edward VIII
  Radio broadcast to the nation,11 Dec, following his abdication to marry Wallis Simpson.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  On writing novels to support his love of writing poetry. In the NewYork Times,13  Jul.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
Table-Talk,'Eating'.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsöfor support rather than illumination.

-Lang, Andrew
  Speech. Quoted in  Alan L Mackay  The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them, and in which, in my belief, they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.

-Law, (Andrew) Bonar
  During the Irish Home Rule crisis, 27  Jul.

And chiefly thou O spirit, that does prefer Before all temples th'upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I mayassert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 580

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.16^25.

Tonightöto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansöI ask for your support.

-Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)
   Appeal to the nation, 3 Nov, for support in the Vietnam War.

One is never weaker than when one appears to have everybody's support.

-Ollivier, EŁ  mile
  Letters.

   Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one anotheröonly in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

-Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
The Social System, ch.8.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  Of London. Letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.