Refuge Quotes

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. (Aristotle)
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Violence,” came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. View quote
Mary Shelley
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. View quote
Emil Cioran
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. View quote
Daniel Webster
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. View quote
Colette
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. (Toni Morrison)
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. View quote
Michael Crichton
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton