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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
— John Ruskin
What would it be like to live one whole day as a Ruskin sentence, wandering like a creek with little comma bridges?
— Mary Oliver
When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece.
— John Ruskin
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do.
— John Ruskin
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India.
— Ruskin Bond
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
— John Ruskin
There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
— Ruskin Bond
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
— John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
— John Ruskin
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
— John Ruskin
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
— John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
— John Ruskin
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
— John Ruskin
Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My
— Ruskin Bond
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
— John Ruskin
Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.
— Ruskin Bond
No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
— John Ruskin
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
— John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.
— Ruskin Bond
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
— John Ruskin
Hitler's signature is ugly, as you would expect.
— Ruskin Bond
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
— John Ruskin
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
— John Ruskin
On the open road we are all brothers.
— Ruskin Bond
She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way.
— Ruskin Bond
The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall.
— Ruskin Bond
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
— John Ruskin
It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It
— Ruskin Bond
Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.
— Ruskin Bond
It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.
— Ruskin Bond
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
— John Ruskin
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
— John Ruskin
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
— John Ruskin
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
— John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
— John Ruskin
Architecture is the work of nations
— John Ruskin
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
— John Ruskin
For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.
— Ruskin Bond
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
— John Ruskin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
— John Ruskin
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.
— Ruskin Bond
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
— John Ruskin
There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
— John Ruskin
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
— John Ruskin
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
— John Ruskin
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
— John Ruskin
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
— John Ruskin
Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder,
— Ruskin Bond
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
— John Ruskin
The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You
— Ruskin Bond
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
— John Ruskin
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
— John Ruskin
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
— John Ruskin
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
— John Ruskin
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
— John Ruskin
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
— Ruskin Bond
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
— John Ruskin
Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.
— Ruskin Bond
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
— John Ruskin
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
— John Ruskin
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
— John Ruskin
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
— John Ruskin
She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad.
— Ruskin Bond
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
— John Ruskin