"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an…" — Anton Chekhov
"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."
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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov has 246 quotes on this site.
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds.…
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
— James Hillman
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there…
— John Flavel
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
— Rajneesh
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Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
— Oliver Herring
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
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If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as…
— John Eliot
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Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point…
— Clifton Fadiman
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When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric…
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