Quotes About Practicality

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.

Money is far more important to me than love because ultimately it lasts longer.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

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

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

I love shopping at Zara or Topshop. I'm not going to go out and spend $1,200 on a Chloe top that I'm probably going to spill something on.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.