More quotes by Anton Chekhov

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."