Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

“Never lie when the truth is more profitable.”

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

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

“Telling lies does not work in advertising.”

“People find life entirely too time-consuming.”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

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

“The first requisite for immortality is death.”

“Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”

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

“Value your words. Each one may be the last.”

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

“Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.”