Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec shares sly, witty reflections on society, chance and human nature.

47 quotes

1. 'Burzac pomniki, oszczedzajcie cokoly. Zawsze moga sie przydac.'

2. 'Wszystko jest w rekach czlowieka. Dlatego nalezy je czesto myc.'

3. 'Nawet w jego milczeniu byly bledy jezykowe.'

4. ''Pogroze mu tylko palcem'' - rzekl, kladac go na cynglu.'

5. A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

6. Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

7. To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

8. We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.

9. The exit is usually where the entrance was.'

10. He who limps is still walking.

11. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

12. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

13. Even a glass eye can see its blindness.

14. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

15. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

16. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

17. Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.

18. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? (Hence the title Cannibals with Forks by John Elkington)

19. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

20. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

21. All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

22. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

23. If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

24. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

25. The first condition of immortality is death.

26. Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

27. There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

28. Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

29. A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

30. The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.'

31. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

32. There are parodies of non-existent things.

33. Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

34. Illiterates have to dictate.

35. Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

36. I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

37. Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

38. A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

39. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

40. Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

41. I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

42. You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

43. There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

44. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

45. Oh, to know God's private address.

46. Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

47. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.