elephant-in-the-room

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 as ridiculous as some things may sound, there comes a time of desperation, when no one's looking...when you will give the ridiculous a try. - Bill Cosby love is a trick played upon us by the forces of evolution.  pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. - T H White, The Once and Future King far from being willing to execute his enemies, a real king must be willing to execute his friends. - T H White, The Once and Future King as a general rule, people, even the wicked are much more naive