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Man Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- Man is what he believes.
- Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now…
- [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
- Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
- There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
- Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She…
- I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield…
- A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
- The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious…
- The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
- Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of…
- If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
- Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
- He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom…
- And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the…
- After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain…
- This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
- A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
- A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems…
- To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
- You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you…
- Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very…
- Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
- Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle