Air Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Building Building Castles Building castles in the air Castles Castles Air Castles in the air Pleasure Pleasure Building Writing
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
When people underestimate you by saying: why building castle in the air, tell them it's because you can build foundation beneath it. — Zorromastigophora Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
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