Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. – Anton Chekhov
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. – Anton Chekhov
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. – Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832), Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Add