The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life Quotes

“Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There’s nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life’s compensations and rewards.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“We three, We’re not alone, We’re not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me…”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“The kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy first derived from it will still be there. I”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Pseudonyms”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“If reading is a minority pastime today it was even more so sixty years ago. And there was no television then, no Internet, no Facebook, no tweeting and twittering, no video games, no DVD players, none of the distractions that we blame today for the decline in the reading habit.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow. A river to cross… A mountain to pass… Now we’ve four more miles to go!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There’s nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life’s compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy first derived from it will still be there. I think it is fair to say that, when I was a boy, reading was my true religion. It helped me discover my soul.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“consternation”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“provides the right sort of tone and setting. Mr Oliver, an Anglo”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Debra.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“around”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“seldom;”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“But being alone as a matter of choice is one of life’s pleasures.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“when I was a boy, reading was my true religion. It helped me discover my soul.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“there were books and authors to be discovered. A lifetime of reading lay ahead. Old books, new books, classics, thrillers, stories short and tall, travelogues, histories, biographies, comedies, comic strips, poems, memories, fantasies, fables…The adventure would end only when the lights went out for ever.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There’s nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life’s compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy first derived from it will still be there.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“fights”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“We get out of life what we bring to it. There is not a dream which may not come true if we have the energy which determines our own fate. We can always get what we want if we will it intensely enough. So few people succeed greatly because so few people conceive a great end, working towards it without giving up. We all know that the man who works steadily for money gets rich; the man who works day and night for fame or power reaches his goal. And those who work for deeper, more spiritual achievements will find them too. It may come when we no longer have any use for it, but if we have been willing it long enough, it will come!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Rebellious schoolboys are unwelcome in a technologically advanced, moralistic, exam-oriented society. We prefer a polished Bill Gates to an eccentric Einstein. Eccentrics do unpredictable things, and we have become afraid of the unpredictable.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“We three, We’re not a crowd; We’re not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me… I”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“And when all the wars are done,’ I said, ‘a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“money can’t buy good health or a serene state of mind—especially the latter. You can fly to the ends of the earth in search of the best climate or the best medical treatment and the chances are that you will have to keep flying!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

“kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A”
― Ruskin Bond, The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life