Anton Chekhov

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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 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.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Man is what he believes.

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

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.