We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Quote by Anton Chekhov
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
- Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- 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.
- 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.
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Best Quotes
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- If you do bad things to show how best you are, you'll fail. 'Cause people will see the kind of a stupid you are, not your wisdom.
- A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
- Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.