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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec [1909-1966] Polish

Rank: 101
Poet

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the more influential aphorists on the 20th century, known for lyrical poetry and skeptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.

Age, Art, Brainy, Change, Nature, Patience, Trust, War, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.	Age, Art, Nature, Work	101
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.		102
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.		103
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.	Brainy	104
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?		105
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.	Change	106
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.	Patience	107
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.		108
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.		109
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.		110
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.	War	111
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.		112
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.	Trust	113
The first requisite for immortality is death.		114
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.		115
Value your words. Each one may be the last.		116
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.		117
People find life entirely too time-consuming.		118
Telling lies does not work in advertising.		119
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.		120
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.		121
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.		122

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