Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
— Anton Chekhov
Friendship
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
— Anton Chekhov
Philosophy
Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
— Anton Chekhov
Philosophy
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.