Buttonhole Quotes

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
I just lost a buttonhole. View quote
Steven Wright
I am not a reformer. I think there is entirely too much attempt at reforming in the world and that we pay too much attention to reformers. We have two kinds of reformers. Both are nuisances. The man who calls himself a reformer wants to smash things. He is the sort of man who would tear up a whole shirt because the collar button did not fit the buttonhole. It would never occur to him to enlarge the buttonhole. This sort of reformer never under any circumstances knows what he is doing. Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact. He must discard all facts. View quote
Henry Ford
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do. View quote
Naomi Shihab Nye
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power. View quote
Andrew Marr
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a brightcolored flower in his buttonhole. View quote
Mark Twain