98 Quotes About Practicality

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

The more you win a debate intellectually, the more you lose it practically.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

It frightens you how practical you can be, how cold, even with your own.

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

Jeg taler aldrig med Bønder, uden jeg jo lærer noget af dem: Thi de raisonnere ikke uden om solide og magtpaaliggende Ting, hvorom de vide fuldkommen Beskeed.

Sure, she loves him. But they've got two different ideas of love. He wants to dance with her on a terrace with a full moon and a thirty-six-piece orchestra; he wants to go singing through storms with her, like Gene Kelly. She knows about thirty-six-piece orchestras. You have to feed them, and then there's nothing left for the children.

Talking wisely and acting wisely are not the same. People may talk wisely but not necessarily act wisely.

Comparing toilet paper and comforting words may sound ridiculous but both wipe away filth.