Famous Quotes from ...

John Ruskin

  • The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others... John Ruskin {view}
  • One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.... John Ruskin {view}
  • It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.... John Ruskin {view}
  • The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.... John Ruskin {view}
  • It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back... John Ruskin {view}
  • Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.... John Ruskin {view}
  • To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.... John Ruskin {view}
  • No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Whether for life or death, do your own work well.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.... John Ruskin {view}
  • The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying... John Ruskin {view}
  • Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.... John Ruskin {view}
  • The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.... John Ruskin {view}
  • Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.... John Ruskin {view}
  • It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.... John Ruskin {view}