Zitat des Tages von Anton Chekhov:
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Only entropy comes easy.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Man is what he believes.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
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.
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.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.