Maxim GorkyQuotes

 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, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
 

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

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“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, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“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.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, And Other Plays

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Stories

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

 

 

 

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole ode from a man . .”
― Maxim Gorky, Selected Short Stories

 

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”
― Maxim Gorky, Selected Short Stories

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Stories

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Stories