Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYLet 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.
MAXIM GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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 GORKYThe revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYBe good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKY