Quotes by Stanislaw Lec

• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
• Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
• Value your words. Each one may be the last.
• The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
• The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
• The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
• In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
• When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
• The first requisite for immortality is death.
• 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.
• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
• Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
• People find life entirely too time-consuming.
• Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
• Telling lies does not work in advertising.
• Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.