“Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.”
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Famous Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
“Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.”
“He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.”
“We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.”
“Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.”
“Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.”
“Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.”
“Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?”
“Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.”
“If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.”
“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”
“The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.”
“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.”
“A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.”
“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.”
“Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.”
“You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.”
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”
“Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.”
“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”
“A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?”
“The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.”
“In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.”
“Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.”
“A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.”