Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
Do I believe? God only knows.
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
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