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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. -- William Rounseville Alger
No tribute is laid on castles in the air. -- Charles Churchill
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. -- Richard Whately
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. -- Rita Rudner
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. -- Maxim Gorky
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. -- Henrik Ibsen
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
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. -- Claude McKay
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. -- Bram Stoker
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
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
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
The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria. -- John Ashcroft
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
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
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. -- Álvaro Mutis
I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere. -- Kofi Annan
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
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
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
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air. -- Jonathan Swift
Build castles in the air. -- Robert A. Burton
Tis best to build no castles in the air. -- Fanny Burney
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air. -- Frei Otto
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. -- Edward Gibbon
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. -- Victor Hugo
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them. -- David Frost
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. -- Josh Billings
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. -- David Frost
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. -- Larry Constantine
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. -- Joni Mitchell
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. -- Thomas Carlyle
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau

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