28th March: Maxim Gorky

Today, 10 quotes by Maxim Gorky, who was born on this date in 1868.

1. 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.
2. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
3. When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
4. You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
5. Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
6. 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?
7. In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
8. Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
9. Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
10. For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, inappreciable swiftness.