Maxim Gorky Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Maxim Gorky on Wise Famous Quotes.
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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.
The number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, unappreciable swiftness.
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.
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.
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.
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.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
God created man in his own image and after his own likeness. Therefore he is like man if man is like him.