Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
Maxim Gorky
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Dramaturge
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Maksim Gor'ky
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov
Aleksey Peshkov
Maksim Gorky
Gorky
Maxim Gorki
Past
Merciless
Enemy
More quotes by Maxim Gorky
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
Maxim Gorky
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
Maxim Gorky
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
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Maxim Gorky
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
Maxim Gorky
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
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
Maxim Gorky
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
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky
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.
Maxim Gorky
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Maxim Gorky
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
Maxim Gorky
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
Maxim Gorky
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
Maxim Gorky
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
Maxim Gorky
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky
