Quotes About Practicality

for Buddhists, Shintoists, and Hindus, religion is practical and spiritual philosophy, with a code of ethics

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians)

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Vishous: ...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you. Jane: I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.

Fantasies were not what she needed right now. What she needed was… A real bathroom with running water.

Cuanto más te acercas a la auténtica materia, a la piedra y al aire y al fuego y a la madera, muchacho, el mundo resulta más espiritual. Toda esa gente que se considera materialista a ultranza no sabe nada de eso. Se consideran gente práctica y tienen la cabeza llena de ideas y nociones confusas. -Levantó la mano-. Escucha esa ardilla.

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.