To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYAll of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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 GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYIt 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 GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYThere 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 GORKYWhen everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY