Charles Buxton quotes

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. (Charles Buxton)
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. View quote
Charles Buxton
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. View quote
Charles Buxton
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. View quote
Charles Buxton
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that. View quote
Charles Buxton
Silence is the severest criticism. View quote
Charles Buxton
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. View quote
Charles Buxton
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better. View quote
Charles Buxton
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. View quote
Charles Buxton
How strangely easy difficult things are! View quote
Charles Buxton
It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised. (Charles Buxton)
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn. View quote
Charles Buxton
One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily." View quote
Charles Buxton