Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.Anton Chekhov
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.Anton Chekhov
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
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.Anton Chekhov
Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."Anton Chekhov
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
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."Anton Chekhov
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.Anton Chekhov
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.Anton Chekhov