Anton Chekhov Quotes

Russian - Dramatist January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Wisdom Knowledge You Value Practice

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Wisdom Happy Winter People

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Communication Broken Light Me

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Money Person Like Vodka Turns

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Nature Time Look Fruit

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Wife Night Tired Medical

Only entropy comes easy.

Easy Only Entropy

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Friendship Love Respect People

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Good You Someone Sauce

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Life Heart Think You

Top 10
Anton Chekhov
Quotes

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.

Science Faith Ocean You

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

Good Passion Society Cold

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

University Out Brings Including

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Sky Peace Diamonds Find

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Loneliness You Afraid Marry

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art Talent New Nothing Nothing New

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Understand Know Fools Pretend

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

You Lawyers Only Difference

Man is what he believes.

Man He Believes

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Day Sky Wife Me

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

World Hatred Petty Fires

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Dealer Writer Cosmetic Entertainer

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Woman Young Cook Than

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Nature Sea Meaning Pity Neither

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Life Day Face You

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Life Trust Believe People

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