Building Castles in the Air
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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
- A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. ~ William R. Alger
- Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. ~ Henrik Ibsen
- Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
- 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
- Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! ~ Edward George Earle
- No tribute is laid on castles in the air. ~ Charles Churchill
- There are mortgages on every castle in the air.~ Author Unknown
- Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.~ Johann Gottfried von Herder
- To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ~ Richard Whately
- 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.~ Sir John Vanbrugh
- Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father’s palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.~ Thomas Traherne
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