Charles Buxton Quotes

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

A successful career has been full of blunders.

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.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

In life as in chess forethought wins.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

To make pleasure pleasant shorten.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.