Maxim Gorky Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Life, Work, Joy

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky

Good, Stupid, Bad

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

Happiness, Small, Big

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky

Mom, Future, Children

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Maxim Gorky

Stupid, Everything, Easy

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
Maxim Gorky

Friend, Him, Why

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky

Beautiful, Words, Guilty

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Maxim Gorky

Write, Drink, Authors

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky

Girl, Able, Marry

When 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 Gorky

Care, Everything, Somebody

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Maxim Gorky

Everything, Philosophy, Since

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky

Children, Same, Write

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky

Past, Cannot, Anywhere

There 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 Gorky

Earth, Miserable, Disgusting

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Maxim Gorky

Mean, Black, Working

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Born: March 16, 1868

Died: June 18, 1936

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