Stanislaw Lec Quotes

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Age, Art, Work, Nature, Youth)

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: First, Patience)

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Eyes, Memories, Reality)

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Doubt, Man)

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Feet, Joy)

"Value your words. Each one may be the last."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: May, Value, Words)

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: World)

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

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Books, Pleasure, Reading)

"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: War, People, Ideas)

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Monuments)

"The first requisite for immortality is death."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Death, First, Immortality)

"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
(Related: First)

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Progress)

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Sacrifice, Mankind)

"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Truth, Lie)

"People find life entirely too time-consuming."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Life, People, Time)

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Worth)

"Telling lies does not work in advertising."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Work, Advertising, Lies)

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Trust, Heart, Blood)