Quotes and Sayings About Refuge
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
-- Agathon -
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
-- Albert Camus -
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
-- Charles Bartlett Johnson -
Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
-- Chiune Sugihara -
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
-- Chris Cleave -
...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.
-- Christina Dodd -
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
-- Ernest Bramah -
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
-- Georges Duhamel -
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
-- Gerard De Nerval -
You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.
-- Guillaume Musso -
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
-- Ken Bruen -
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
-- Neal Boortz -
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
-- Oscar Wilde -
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
-- Patrick Süskind -
He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
-- Philo -
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.
-- Saint Boniface -
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
-- Toni Morrison -
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
-- Veronica Roth
