Maxim Gorky Famous Quotes
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
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"
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery."
"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better."
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky Quotations
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
"Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."
Harry S Truman
The game is up.
William Shakespeare
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H G Wells
"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."
Susan S Taylor
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Billy Rose
"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."
Richard Hofstadter
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.
Dodie Smith