When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
-
-
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY -
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY -
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKY -
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.
MAXIM GORKY -
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKY -
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY -
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKY -
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!
MAXIM GORKY -
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKY -
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.
MAXIM GORKY -
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY -
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKY -
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY -
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
MAXIM GORKY -
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY