To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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 GORKYThe more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYAn artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYWhat 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.
MAXIM GORKYGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
MAXIM GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYWhen one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYWhen the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKYAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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 GORKY