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Explore more quotes by John Ruskin
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
Exlpore more Work quotes
"The world system is employment."
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Work,
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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