Today, 10 quotes by Maxim Gorky, who was born on this date in 1868.
- 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.
- When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
- When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
- You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
- Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
- 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?
- In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
- Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
- Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
- For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, inappreciable swiftness.
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