"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy." ― Anton Chekhov Topic(s): Wisdom More From 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." "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." "Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable." More In Wisdom "I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out."― Margaret Cho "The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."― Ed Miliband "We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."― William O. Douglas