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Anton Chekhov
Russian
Dramatist
Born:
Jan 29
,
1860
Died:
Jul 15
,
1904
Good
He
Life
Only
People
You
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Wisdom
Winter
Happy
People
Summer
Whether
Notice
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Knowledge
You
Value
Practice
Unless
Put
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Me
Broken
Communication
Light
Moon
Broken Glass
Tell
Glass
Shining
Show
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Life
Day
You
Face
Idiot
Living
Crisis
Out
Wears
Day-To-Day
Any
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Love
Friendship
Respect
People
Hatred
Something
Common
Much
Unite
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov
Loneliness
You
Marry
Afraid
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
World
Hatred
Petty
Fires
Hostility
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov
Fools
Nothing
Everything
Pretend
Charlatans
Only
He
Know
Understand
Does
Psychologist
Should
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.
Anton Chekhov
Life
You
Heart
Become
Think
Relations
Complex
About
Terrifying
Becomes
Still
Human
Your
Stands
Human Relations
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov
Peace
Sky
Find
See
Angels
Shall
Diamonds
Hear
Sparkling
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.
Anton Chekhov
Time
Nature
Fruit
Will
Trees
Pick
Look
Learn
Times
May
Us
Bare
Forward
Let Us
Appreciate
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov
Life
You
Trust
People
Impossible
Believe
Must
Becomes
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.
Anton Chekhov
Faith
You
Science
Ocean
Entire
Seems
Finish
Only
Drink
Could
Glass
Start
Two
Thirsty
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Anton Chekhov
Life
Alone
About
Well
Learn
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
Tired
Wife
Medicine
Other
Spend
Lawful
Mistress
Get
Literature
Medical
Night
Only entropy comes easy.
Anton Chekhov
Easy
Only
Entropy
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov
You
Doctors
Too
Only
Lawyers
Only Difference
Merely
Rob
Same
Difference
Whereas
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.
Anton Chekhov
Faith
People
Matter
Year
Unfair
Unjust
Else
State
Extreme
Characterized
Embittered
Corrupt
More
More Than Anything
He
Over
Him
Fairness
How
Than
Lack
May
Anything
Anything Else
Placed
Loves
Convict
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Anton Chekhov
Out
Ability
Including
Brings
University
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Anton Chekhov
Beautiful
You
Woman
Eyes
People
Hair
Say
Beautiful People
Always
Lovely
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov
Democracy
Advertising
Very
Essence
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Anton Chekhov
God
Good
Judge
Eye
Bad
Would
Take
Between
Unsuccessful
Successful
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov
Faith
You
Aptitude
Must
Born
Spirit
Fact
Talent
In Fact
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
Love
Me
Justice
Humanity
Tell
More
Steam
Chastity
Vegetarianism
Than
Reason
Electricity
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov
Art
Science
Wealthy
Well
Always
Surrounded
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov
Other
Neither
He
Reached
Nor
Left
Shore
Fiance
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