Anton Chekhov Mean Quotations

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.