Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Profession : Poet

Birth : March 6, 1909

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec