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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Quotes, quotations, aphorisms and thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Quotes, quotations, aphorisms and thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Everyone wants your good, take care they could also steal it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Only the dead can be resurrected. It’s more difficult with the living.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

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

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

When everything has to be right, something isn’t.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

At the beginning there was the Word – at the end just the Cliche.
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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
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The success of Heine – to become a world-famous unkown poet.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You have to decide, even to hesitate
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