Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
Antiphanes

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
Bob Ney

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
William Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
Pierre Berton

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Neal Boortz

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp

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

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
E. Howard Hunt

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.
Ron Kind

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin