Quotes by Maxim Gorky

• 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 carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
• Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
• One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
• A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
• You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
• You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
• 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.
• When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
• The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.