Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesnt marry a girl of twenty. – Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesnt marry a girl of twenty. – 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
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorky
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981