Refuge Quotes

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. (Democritus)
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. View quote
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
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. (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. View quote
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. (Albert Schweitzer)
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. View quote
Toni Morrison
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. View quote
Aristotle
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