Refuge Quotes - page 2

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. (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
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. View quote
Maya Angelou
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. View quote
Neil Gaiman
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters. View quote
H. L. Mencken
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. View quote
Gilbert Parker
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. View quote
Hugh Mackay
Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs. (Valerie Solanas)
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. View quote
Cassandra Clare
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. (Luis Barragán)
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge. View quote
Herodotus
We speak of people "taking refuge" in vagueness - the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough. View quote
J. L. Austin
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney