CASTLE

Related Subject: Dreams

1. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.—BULWER-LYTTON, The Lady of Lyons
   

2. The snail, which everywhere doth roam
   Carrying his own house still, still is at home,
   Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail,
   Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.—JOHN DONNE, Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton
   

3. I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for
   comfort and for use, than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

4. Castles are forests of stone.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
   

5. When I could not sleep for cold,
   I had fire enough in my brain,
   And builded, with roofs of gold,
   My beautiful castles in Spain.—LOWELL, Aladdin
   

6. To build castles in Spain.—Proverb
   

7. This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
   Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
   Unto our gentle senses.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

8. A castle girt about and bound
   With sorrow, like a spell.—SWINBURNE, The Tale of Balen
   

9. 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.—THOREAU, Walden