Practicality Quotes

You'll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.

~ The Afters

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

~ The Afters

Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

~ James S.a. Corey

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

~ John Adams

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

~ Robin Mckinley

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

~ David Brin

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

~ Florence Nightingale