More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
I am who I am and that's who I am
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.