"To make pleasures pleasant shortens them." — Charles Buxton
"To make pleasures pleasant shortens them."
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10 Quotes by Charles Buxton
Charles Buxton has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
- In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
- Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
- Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your…
- The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a…
- The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged…
- In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she…
- You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.