Anton Chekhov
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.Collection: Money
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Faith
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.Collection: Alone
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.Collection: Peace
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.Collection: Communication
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.Collection: Wisdom
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.Collection: Wisdom
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Faith
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.Collection: Fear
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.Collection: Faith
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.Collection: Nature
To advise is not to compel.Collection: Wisdom
There is nothing new in art except talent.Collection: Art
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Nature
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Good
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.Collection: Happiness
Only entropy comes easy.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Man is what he believes.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.Collection: Funny
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.Collection: Friendship
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.Collection: Meaningful
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.Collection: Hard Times
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.Collection: Beautiful