Refuge Quotes
464 quotes by 364 authors
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are…
— Aristotle
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
— Leonard Cohen
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
— Maya Angelou
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada…
— Susan B. Anthony
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
— Edward Coke
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
— Mark Twain
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
— Christian Dior
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can…
— Max Lucado
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Refuge Quotes
364 authors contributed a total of 464 Refuge Quotes, led by these top contributors: