Quote by Ruskin Bond Download Open image ““Five hours sleepeth a traveller, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave.' So”” — Ruskin Bond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Where was the knowledgeable one who wove his spell to bring his familiarity with the Atman out of the sleep into the state of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.” — Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night’s beloved in this earthly labour of the day.” — Novalis Copy Share Image
“He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. — William Jones Copy Share Image
“...a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Closed inside my compartment as if in a cubicle of some Egyptian tomb, I worked late into the night between New York and Chicago;… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
'live long my friend,be wise and strong, but do not take from any man his song' — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees,… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Nandprayag is a place that ought to be famous for its beauty and order. For a mile or two before reaching it we had… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image