Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

When a woman isn`t beautiful, people always say, `You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.`

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything

Doctors are the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

People don`t notice whether it`s winter or summer when they`re happy.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Don`t tell me the moon is shining show me the glint of light on broken glass.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.

To advise is not to compel.

acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.