Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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Politics: a Trojan horse race.
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Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
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Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
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There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
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Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
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Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
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When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
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The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
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Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
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Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
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I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
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Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
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The exit is usually where the entrance was.
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Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
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Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.