Castles In The Air Quotes

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

  Victor Hugo

  Air, Castles, Ifs

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Air, Castles, Building

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.166

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• I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

  Frei Otto

  Air, Castles, Littles

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• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Air, Castles, Building

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• Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

  Claude McKay

  Reality, Air, Political

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

  Henrik Ibsen

  Air, Castles, Easy

  The Master Builder act 3 (1892)

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• Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Air, Wish, Castles

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• Tis best to build no castles in the air.

  Fanny Burney

  Air, Castles

  Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press

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• Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Keys, Air, Doors

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.116, ShandonPress

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  House Of Cards, Air, Castles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 39, 1799.

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• No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

  William Osler

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.38, ACP Press

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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Creating, Air

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Air, Wife

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.317

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• Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.131

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• My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Past, Night, Air

  Thomas Love Peacock (1928). “Selections from Thomas Love Peacock”

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• By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

  John Dewey

  Reading, Men, Air

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

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• And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
  That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
  I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
  Just leave me to despair
  Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
  A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
  I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye
  The love we knew, ain't worth another try

  Don McLean

  Dream, Song, Wall

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fun, Air, Castles

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.115, ShandonPress

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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