Best Quotes by John Ruskin (Top 10)

  1. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
  2. It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
  3. The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
  4. The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
  5. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
  6. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
  7. Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
  8. There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
  9. What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
  10. All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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