"One must not put a loaded rifle on……" — Anton Chekhov
"One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it."
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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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More Firing Quotes
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By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
— Unknown Author
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There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of…
— James Brady
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
— Alexander Woollcott
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Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me…
— Jimmy Connors
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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my…
— Unknown Author
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I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored…
— Joycelyn Elders
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Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's…
— Francis Crick
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
— Tom Peters
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When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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