Quotes of Mansion - somelinesforyou

“ 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 road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ A man's home is his wife's castle. ”

- Alexander Chase

“ A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. ”

- Bible

“ A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ”

- Clare Boothe Luce

“ A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor. ”

- Lucille Kallen

“ 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

“ High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation,But many a worm had pierced the foundation. ”

- William Allingham

“ One may make their house a palace of shame, or they can make it a home, a refuge. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Wisdom is a palace, of which only the vestibule has yet been entered. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ”

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“ I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera. ”

- Pola Negri

“ My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Build castles in the air. ”

- Robert Burton

“ For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. ”

- Bible

“ To build castles in Spain. ”

- George Herbert

“ A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ”

- George Herbert

“ You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. ”

- robert owen

“ Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. ”

- Franz Schubert

“ Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. ”

- Prince Andrew

“ And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. ”

- Bible

“ A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. ”

- James Otis

“ The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: / But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. ”

- Bible
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