One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. Maxim Gorky More Quotes by Maxim Gorky More Quotes From Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky work success life We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it. Maxim Gorky bullets deeds people Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance. Maxim Gorky ambition struggle lying Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky mothers-day mom baby Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. Maxim Gorky done kindness love-you When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid. Maxim Gorky stupid easy 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 success happiness inspirational Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. Maxim Gorky reading book thinking Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. Maxim Gorky men book art Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future Maxim Gorky remembrance energy past The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment. Maxim Gorky morning children dirty In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. Maxim Gorky curiosity mindfulness past To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him. Maxim Gorky truth class art Our most merciless enemy is our past. Maxim Gorky our-past enemy past When 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 Gorky wedding jumping winter Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. Maxim Gorky heal soul truth A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. Maxim Gorky good-man stupid men When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event. Maxim Gorky welcome events grief The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. Maxim Gorky bitter hunger sweet Silence 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 silence speak simple
