I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go…

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

— Edward Gibbon

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he…

— Ryū Murakami

“She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out…

— Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

As entrepreneurs, or artists, or just people with dreams, the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect…

— Marc Randolph

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

— Friedrich Schiller

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But…

— John Vanbrugh

When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ,…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

— Charles Churchill

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

— William Rounseville Alger

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

— Ilona Andrews