Quotes

a few quotes from Anton Chekhov:


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.


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.


If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.


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


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


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


Man is what he believes.


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


Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.


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


Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.


The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.


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


We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.


When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.


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.