Russian Quotes

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Things always happen in series.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.