Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.Collection: Patience
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.Collection: War
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.Collection: Age
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.Collection: Brainy
The first requisite for immortality is death.Collection: Death
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.Collection: Trust
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Collection: Change
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.Collection: Funny
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.Collection: Myth
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.Collection: Eye
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?Collection: Funny
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.Collection: Reality
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.Collection: Ignorance
We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.Collection: Law
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.Collection: Inspirational
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.Collection: Swim
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.Collection: Errors
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.Collection: Luck
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.Collection: Being Yourself
When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.Collection: Attitude
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.Collection: Demand
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.Collection: Math
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.Collection: Stupid
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.Collection: Justice
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memoriesCollection: Depression
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.Collection: Sometimes
Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.Collection: Lying
A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.Collection: Short Life
Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.Collection: Paradise
Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?Collection: Eye
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?Collection: Doe
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.Collection: Clock
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.Collection: Gossip
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.Collection: Blood
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.Collection: Song