Stanislaw Lec Quotes

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

Age, Work, Nature

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

Change, Joy, Feet

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

Break, Chain, Strongest

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

Reality, Eyes, Memories

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

Patience, Learn

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

Trust, Heart, Blood

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec

Progress, Cannibal, Fork

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 Lec

Great, Choose, Pay

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

Same, Another, Lives

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

Save, Monuments, Smashing

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

Sacrifice, Mankind, Deserves

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Lec

Truth, Lie, Profitable

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Lec

Life, Find, Entirely

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Stanislaw Lec

Sometimes, Worth, Overdoing

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Stanislaw Lec

Work, Lies, Telling

The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Lec

Death, Requisite

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

Newspaper, Window, Covered

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

Thoughts, Everybody, Jump

Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec

May, Words, Last

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

Stupid, Doubt, Himself

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Poet

Born: March 6, 1909

Died: May 7, 1966

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