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
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
- To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
- 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.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- 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.
- Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Best Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
- We heed no instincts but our own.