Quotes about Practicality

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.

At present there are among Christians modern Stoics who think it is wrong to groan and to weep and even to grieve in loneliness. Such wild opinions generally come forth from men who are more dreamers than practical men, and who, therefore, cannot produce anything else but fantasies.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.