159 Quotes by Maxim Gorky

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

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.

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.

The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.