Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.


Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 3, 1892)

Anton Chekhov Quotes

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...