Leo Tolstoy

(1828—1910), Russian novelist

Children are a torment and nothing else.

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Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910), Russian novelist Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. www.sky-net-eye.com

Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910), Russian novelist Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. www.sky-net-eye.com

wade through

[wade through] {v. phr.} To read through something long and laborious. * /It took John six months to wade through Tolstoy's War and Peace in the original Russian./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Prutkov Kozma

Kozma Prutkov - a collective pseudonym for the group of Russian writers - Alexey Tolstoy and Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, who performed jointly in 50-60s of the 19th century. www.sky-net-eye.com

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George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), Irish author I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

быть на дружеской ноге

[быть на дружеской ноге] (с кем-л.) {v. phr.} [byit' na `drujeskoj no`g'e] {literally} To be on a […]

pick a bone

[pick a bone] See: [BONE TO PICK].

pipe

[pipe] See: [PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT].