Castles in the air.

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses - Georg C. Lichtenberg

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. - Richard Whately

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? - Eliza Cook

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. - David Frost

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

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! - - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

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

No tribute is laid on castles in the air. - Charles Churchill

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

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

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