Famous Quotes

Quotes by Anton Chekhov

• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
• Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
• 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.
• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
• Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
• Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
• One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
• The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
• There is nothing new in art except talent.
• To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
• We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
• When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
• 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.
• You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.