Quotes of Refuge - somelinesforyou

“ Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. ”

- Horace

“ There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Don't play for safety — it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ”

- Sir Hugh Walpole

“ There are no atheists in foxholes. ”

- William T. Cummings

“ Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections. ”

- Zacharia

“ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. ”

- Josh Billings

“ The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. ”

- Friedrich Wasiman

“ Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ”

- Seneca

“ There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ”

- James Thurber

“ The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. ”

- J. Lubbock

“ Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. ”

- Seneca

“ No wind favors him who has no destined port. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Safety of the state is the highest law. ”

- Justinian

“ My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble. ”

- Eli Cass

“ Time... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots. ”

- Richard Neville

“ Fear is the foundation of most government. ”

- John Adams

“ Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. ”

- Irene Peter

“ The green retreats Of Academus. ”

- Mark Akenside
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