practicality Quotes

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Adjust your desires to what you can currently afford. Only increase them when you have more resources.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.