Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. – John Ruskin
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. – John Ruskin
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. – John Ruskin
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin
Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – John Ruskin
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin
The last act crowns the play. – John Ruskin
Men dont and cant live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They dont live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions. – John Ruskin
Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I dont mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. – John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. – John Ruskin
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – John Ruskin
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. – John Ruskin
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. – John Ruskin
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin
