Nor is Mr. Roosevelt happy in his illustration, when, in his concluding arraignment of the Abolitionists, he seeks to discredit them as an organization of impracticables by comparing them to the political Prohibitionists of to-day. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Mad. de Grignan, "que vous avez raison d'etre fatiguée de cette Montagne de Rochepot! je la hais comme la mort; que de cahots, et quelle cruauté qu'au mois de Janvier les chemins de Bourgogne soient impracticables!" ❋ John Hughes (N/A)
With us these little knots of impracticables have an insignificant effect upon the national life, and no representation to speak of in our governmental assemblies. ❋ Unknown (1900)
When one of these professional impracticables denounces the attitude of decent men as "a hodge-podge of the ideal and the practicable," he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation, showing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work. ❋ Unknown (1900)
On the following day he frankly laughed at them as a lot of impracticables who either did not know the patent facts of city life or refused to admit those facts. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)
The incapables and the impracticables, though loaded with diplomas and degrees, are left behind. ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)
He was a lover of peace, in active sympathy with social reforms, sometimes betrayed into extravagances, but generally guarded by his common sense against extremists and impracticables. ❋ George Spring Merriam (1878)
Let us not be impracticable, for secession was engendered among the impracticables of New England during the time of the embargo, and then adopted by those of South Carolina; and the putting of it down is likely to cost us banks of money and scores of lives. ❋ Unknown (1866)
The public don't care for a few soreheads and impracticables in an operation that is going to open up the whole ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
The socialist who raves against the existing order is not the man who ever lifts his hand practically to make our social life a little better, to make the conditions that bear upon the unfortunate a little easier; the man who demands the immediate impossible in temperance is not the man who ever aids in an effort to minimize the evils caused by the saloon; and those who work practically for political reform are hampered, so far as they are affected at all, by the strutting vanity of the professional impracticables. ❋ Unknown (1900)
[Impracticable] is an [impracticable] word, which in practice, I've never seen or heard practiced.
In practice, [spellcheck] finds that [impractical] is too impractical, and replaces it with a word which I personally consider to be, in practice, both impracticable, and impractical. ❋ Thatonespecificguy (2017)
