Maxim Gorky Quotes

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Every new time will give its law.

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?

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.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

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

The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.

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.

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