Unstable Foundation Quotes

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.

I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.