30 witty sayings of great Russian classics

January 29, 1860, was born 155 years ago, the great Russian writer, the conventional classic world literature, Anton Chehov.



Surprisingly, Chekhov originally intended to become a doctor, graduated from the Medical Faculty in Moscow. It was during his student years, the debut of Anton Chekhov as a writer, when he sent out his first notes and essays in the magazine "Dragonfly».

Over 25 years of creative activity, Anton Pavlovich wrote about 900 works that have been translated into 100 languages. Chekhov is known and loved in every corner of the planet.

Here is a small collection of quotations from his work, correspondence or conversations with other successful leaders who will remind you of how witty, concise, unique and exciting style was Chekhov.

It is not a question of pessimism or optimism, but the fact that ninety-nine out of a hundred have no sense. Nature has invested in Russian an extraordinary ability to believe in a searching mind and a gift myslitelstva, but all that is broken in the dust of carelessness, laziness and carelessness dreamy ...

- < Smart loves to learn and teach the fool!

- Healthy and normal only mediocre, gregarious people.

- Male logic never cope with the female.

- One reduces the pain is always different. You will come to the cat's tail, which has a toothache, and it will become easier.

- My advice in the play try to be original and clever as possible, but do not be afraid to sound stupid; It should be free-thinking, free-thinker and only one who is not afraid to write nonsense. Do not lick no grinds, and be clumsy and bold. Brevity - the sister of talent.

- He was married three times and, therefore, had three pairs of beautiful, branched horns.

- Mediocrity is not one who does not know how to write novels, and the one who writes them and can not hide it.

- University develops all abilities, including - nonsense.

- Loneliness in the works - heavy stuff. Better a bad criticism than nothing ...

- If your act upset someone, it does not mean that he was far wrong.

... For the post office has long been the reputation of the institution where the scary happen.

- As an American, he at the same time was also a man, and if he was a man, sooner or later he had to fall in love as he once did.

- If you want you to have a little time - do not do anything.

- The cheapness of Russian goods - it is a diploma in its disrepair.

- Women without male society fade, and men without women glupeyut.

- If you want to be optimistic and to understand life, you stop believing what they say and write, and watch myself and heed.

- If against some disease is invited to a lot of money, it means that the disease is incurable.

- Saw for dinner and pretty - choked; Then I saw another pretty - and again choked. Have not had dinner, it was pretty much.

- We must strive to ensure that everyone saw and knew more than saw and knew his father and grandfather.

- The fact that we experience when we are in love, perhaps, is the normal state. Love points to man as it should be.

- A wonderful day today. Whether tea to drink, or to hang himself.

- Man - that's what he believes.

- Even in the human happiness is something sad.

- When your finger gets a splinter, rejoice: "Well, that is not in the eye!"

- All know and understand everything only fools and charlatans.

- Life is, in fact, a very simple thing, and the person needs to work hard to spoil it.

- Children should be holy and pure. You can not make them toys your mood.

- A good man is ashamed even before the dog.

Anger - is a kind of cowardice.

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