A neatly folder cardboard box is the last refuge of a recyclist

Wherein Snowclones

• Samuel Johnson: patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
• Isaac Asimov: Violence is the refuge of the incompetent
• Oscar Wilde: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
• Oscar Wilde: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
• Oscar Wilde: Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do
• Oscar Wilde: I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
• Natalie Clifford Barney: Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual
• Tony Wilson: Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented
• Kim Stanley Robinson in Red Mars (1992): Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation
• Thomas Sowell: Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument
• Joe Klein: Issues are the last refuge of a scoundrel
• The Illustrated magazine of art, Volume 3: We have said that these convents are the the last refuge of Greek art
• New Scientist Dec18-25, 19975: Wetlands are the last refuge of that most persecuted creature, urban man
• Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy, Joseph Luzzi: Corinne responds that art is the last refuge of a nation despoiled by foreigners of its arms and government
• George Russell: the story of an American composer, Duncan Heining: In some ways, the avant-garde is the last refuge of the untalented

Under news

• The Crikey health blog: marathon running is the last refuge of the scoundrel
• Mile High Report: But a Hail Mary pass is the last refuge of the desperate for a reason
• Sebastian Shakespeare: Twitter is the last refuge of the green-ink brigade
• Andrew Scharf: Dr. Johnson once quipped, “Nationalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”.
• DrRck, in the comments: Boxing, though, is not the last refuge of an MMA fighter, any more than MMA is the last refuge of a boxer.
• Bruce Jackson (?): "Uncertainty is the last refuge of economists who can’t explain what is going on."
• Joe Nocera quoting Paul Kasriel: (“Uncertainty,” Kasriel told me, “is the last refuge of economists who can’t explain what is going on.”)
• Lydia Miljan: "I know saying that is the last refuge of the meek."
• Adam Gartrell quoting Robert Jeremenko: Harmonisation is the last refuge of scoundrels
• Jim Carroll: [box sets and deluxe editions] are the last refuge of the record label scoundrels
• Paul Ryan: Fear and demagoguery are the last refuge of an intellectually bankrupt party
• Robert Bryce: "Green jobs" are the last refuge of the subsidy seekers.