Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
All Gods were immortal.
The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
He who limps is still walking.
When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.
Illiterates have to dictate.
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
There are parodies of non-existent things.
We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Oh, to know God's private address.
Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
Powerless rage can work miracles.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
How many prison years in the years since Christ!
Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
Politics: a Trojan horse race.
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
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