Quotes by Russian Authors - Page 3

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
I praise loudly I blame softly.
Catherine II
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness to love and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
The morning is wiser than the evening.
Russian proverb
When money speaks the truth is silent.
Russian proverb
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
Max Asnas
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
Samuel Hoffenstein
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.
Indra Devi
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
Anton Chekhov
Some pray to marry the man they love My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky
Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.
Anton Chekhov
When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every new time will give its law.
Maxim Gorky
Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Leo Tolstoy
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.
Ivan Goncharov
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Faith walks simply childlike between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Clever father clever daughter clever mother clever son.
Russian proverb
Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Rose Pastor Stokes
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Rose Pastor Stokes
We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
A kind word is like a Spring day.
Russian proverb
Kindness causes us to learn and to forget many things.
Madame Swetchine
It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
We are all happy if we only knew it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.
Catherine the Great
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Leo Tolstoy
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova
Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
Anton Chekhov
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There was never a saint with red hair.
Russian proverb
One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.
Alexander Ostrovsky
Gossip needs no carriage.
Russian proverb
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
Max Lerner
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Anna Pavlova
If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.
Arthur Adamov
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Helene Iswolsky
A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.
Russian proverb
The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
Sophie Rostopchine Sigur
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
Igor Stravinsky
All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky
Faith is the force of life.
Leo Tolstoy