In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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 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 GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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 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 work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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 GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY