A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
Jeremy Rifkin

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
Hugh Mackay

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Max Frisch

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.
Lois Capps

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
Richard Wagner

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry S. Haskins

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan

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

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Jim Ramstad

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 was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor