A Quote by Charles Churchill

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
English - Poet
1732 - November 4, 1764

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.

Charles Churchill

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

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Edward Gibbon

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

I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.

Dave Davies

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Josh Billings

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Maxim Gorky

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

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Larry Constantine

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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.