Buxton Quotes & Sayings

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. — Charles Buxton

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

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer. — Bill Buxton

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

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 — Charles Buxton

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in. — Bill Buxton

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function — Bill Buxton

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling — Bill Buxton

The first duty to 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. — Charles Buxton

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old! — Bill Buxton

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. — Charles Buxton

You cannot win without sacrifice. — Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. — Charles Buxton

No hard figures are available on how much was actually paid out or how many Friends complied with the request of their Yearly Meeting. For those who did pay their slaves, it was common to use the yearly wage of the day. We do know that one Mr. F. Buxton, in an appeal before the British House of Commons to abolish slavery, said that it had cost North Carolina Friends fifty thousand pounds to release their slaves.14 For some southern Friends emancipation of their slaves meant financial bankruptcy; for many, if not most, it meant eventual migration to the North. — Richard J. Foster

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

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable — Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton. — John Ruskin

Proverbs are potted wisdom. — Charles Buxton

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. — Charles Buxton

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

If I can see it, it's a failure — Bill Buxton

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today — Bill Buxton

Annie Wilkes had her own interior set of rules; in her way she was strangely prim. She had made him drink water from a floor-bucket; had withheld his medication until he was in agony; had made him burn the only copy of his new novel; had hand-cuffed him and stuck a rag reeking of furniture polish in his mouth; but she would not take the money from his wallet. She brought it to him, the old scuffed Lord Buxton he'd had since college, and put it in his hands. All — Stephen King

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters
all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home. — Charles Buxton

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. — 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. — Charles Buxton

One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated. — Jeff Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday. — Bill Buxton

Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them. — Bill Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. — Charles Buxton

It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway. — Felix Buxton

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit. — Charles Buxton

A successful career has been full of blunders. — Charles Buxton

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place. — Bill Buxton

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. — Charles Buxton

Always be a beginner at something. — Bill Buxton

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

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch. — Bill Buxton

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay
of hard forethought
of pains
of steadiness
of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price. — Charles Buxton

America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white. — Felix Buxton

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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

A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals. — Bonnie Buxton

It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever. — Felix Buxton

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

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. — Charles Buxton

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

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. — Felix Buxton

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination. — Charles Buxton

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

Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning. — Bill Buxton