Practicality Quotes

“Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.”

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

“Comfort is key. I need to be able to move and breathe in my clothes.”

“A house should be built with the summer in mind.”

“The great advantage of being a man is that you can buy underwear in a minute, and your clothes last for years.”

“It's a good thing to have a well-balanced mind, but it's a better thing to have a well-balanced checkbook.”

“I never like to go into battle with a hungry stomach.”

“An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.”

“Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”

“To the native, magic is a practical art... an indispensable ingredient of all important activities.”

“Nothing of a spiritual nature can be done for them until their temporal wants have been supplied.”

“I'm not a collector of vintage equipment. I'm a player of musical instruments.”

“For me, I'm a mother and I work. I have a normal life, and I just want to see clothes that are beautiful, that are well-made, that are timeless, and that are real.”

“I design for a woman who is a mother, who has a life, who has a reality.”

“All the practical men I have ever known have been disastrous.”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

“Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.”

“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”

“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”

“The intelligent man is one who is able to apply his knowledge in a practical and useful way.”