Quotes from Maxim Gorky

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

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

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

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

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

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.

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