Maxim Gorky Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.