"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

12/25/11

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes


"At the door of every happy, contended man somebody should stand with a little hammer, constantly tapping, to remind him that unhappy people exist, that however happy he may be, sooner or later life will show him its claws, some calamity will befall him — illness, poverty, loss — and nobody will hear or see, just as he doesn't hear or see others now." ~Anton Chekhov, Five Little Stories

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~Anton Chekhov

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky." ~Anton Chekhov

“If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.” ~Anton Chekhov, Notebook of Anton Chekhov

“In all the universe, nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit”~Anton Chekhov

"It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth." ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright.

"Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding." ~Anton Chekhov

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." ~Anton Chekhov

"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism." ~Anton Chekhov

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." ~Anton Chekhov

"Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning." ~Anton Chekhov 

╔═════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ═════╗
THANK YOU
╚═════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ═════╝