Imaginary Foundation Quotes & Sayings

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. — Samuel Rogers

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact. — Agatha Christie

The foundation of government is ... laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of judicial with civil principles,) but in political convenience, and in human nature; either as that nature is universal, or as it is modified by local habits and social aptitudes. The foundation of government ... is laid in a provision for our wants, and in a conformity to our duties; it is to purvey for the one; it is to enforce the other. — Edmund Burke