In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Past, The Past
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.
—Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Mathematics
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Philosophy
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Stupidity
When work is a pleasure, life is joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.
—Maxim Gorky
Only mothers can think of the future, because they give birth to it in their children.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Family
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Authors & Writing
The intelligentsia …was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie – that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Philosophy
Every new time will give its law.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Laughter
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in a circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Laws
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man—Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Hope, Optimism, Aspirations
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.
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Murder
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write
—Maxim Gorky
Topics: Drinking
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian Novelist
- Anton Chekhov Russian Short Story Writer
- Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist
- Konstantin Stanislavski Russian Actor
- Nikolai Berdyaev Russian Christian Philosopher
- Anna Pavlova Russian Ballerina
- Nikita Khrushchev Russian Head of State
- Catherine II of Russia Russian Empress
- Sophie Swetchine Russian Mystic, Writer
- Michael Harrington American Socialist
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