We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
Anton ChekhovIf you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
Anton ChekhovWho keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
Anton ChekhovWhen a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, youโll eat the wolves; if you go straight, youโll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov