Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
Alfred North Whitehead
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Every refuge has a reason for being. One of the main reasons this refuge was established was for the migratory birds.
Nancy Corona
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp
We are seeing the early warnings of the dawn of international deflation, ... Gold prices are rising because it's a refuge.
James Dines
She sought refuge, and he came down after, in effect, hunting her.
Joe Durkin
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Madame Chiang Kai shek
Acme has overwhelmed both the refuge and stands in a position to continue overwhelming terrible water quality for the refuge and/or the Lake Worth Lagoon.
Rosa Durando
There are two means of refuge from the miseries 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.
Toni Morrison
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Francis Scott Key
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
This is probably the most threatened the Arctic refuge has been since 1960, when it was established as a reserve by President Dwight Eisenhower.
Bill Meadows
If an officer doesn't grant asylum, you have the right to take your case before an immigration judge. Asylum is a very compassionate exercise of the law, and many people have been saved through refuge and asylum.
Sharon Rummery
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
People here in Canada, especially in Atlantic Canada because of that Acadian connection, felt that 'well, maybe we could take some of these people in, especially the children. We could offer them a place of temporary refuge,' .
Anne Mclellan
What is reasonable to say is that (the Alaska refuge) could represent between 5 and 10 percent of our national production for a period of 20 to 30 years.
David Houseknecht
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
White Rock Lake is a refuge from city life. If we lose that, we lose our natural beauty ... and I don't want to lose that.
Brad Rogers
We all had this panicked look, ... That was the place of last refuge and where the majority of people would be. And along with that, we had a lot more water to walk through.
Royce Osborn
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
William Gaddis
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
Henrik Ibsen
This is where Danny and I could come. We could come for refuge away from the stress of what was going on. We could have our meals, we could take showers if we needed to, and it's allowed me to continue to work as well.
Amy Williams
Anyone who claims that drilling in the Arctic Refuge will substantially reduce gas prices is either astonishingly misinformed or is intentionally not telling the truth to the American people.
Jim Dipeso
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
Milla Jovovich
Oil development in the arctic wildlife refuge makes as much sense as chopping down the giant redwoods for firewood.
Jim Walton
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, 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.
H. L. Mencken
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood C. Broun
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry S. Haskins
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
William Plomer
It's not too late to save the Arctic Refuge from devastating oil drilling. We have to make our voices heard now. The big oil companies have the money and the high-powered lobbyists, but we are confident that when it comes time to vote on the fate of the Arctic Refuge, Congress will listen to the American people.
Bill Meadows
I have been in touch with fellow Lions in Louisiana who are assisting me with coordinating needed items for the hurricane victims. Many homeless Lions are staying at a Lions children's camp in Leesville La., which has become a refuge for the homeless and also a distribution center for Lions helping Lions.
Tim Chase
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious.
Frank L. Boyden
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Neal Boortz
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
Antiphanes
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
New Orleans is getting pretty empty. You've got to go where the people are. It could be the rural areas. It might be refuge centers. There hasn't been that much done in the rural areas yet.
Richard Nelson
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
The base is his last refuge at this point.
Charles Franklin
Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
We have 600 families, or about 3,000 people in total, who have been displaced and are seeking refuge in an army barracks, a police station and two churches where they are being protected by a joint police and army force.
Adamu Abubakar
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker
This document was intended to illustrate not just for leadership but for members of the House that the chairman feels we have no choice but to open (the refuge).
Brian Kennedy
We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.
Evan Hirsche
The Republican leadership has every intention of putting language allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back into this bill in conference.
Edward Markey
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Earl Of Chesterfield
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