More From 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."
- "People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."
- "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."
More In Wisdom
- "Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."― Alfred North Whitehead
- "Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."― Robert Louis Stevenson
- "It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst."― Desiderius Erasmus