Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYJail 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 GORKYWhen everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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 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 GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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 GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKYThe more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYSilence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
MAXIM GORKY