Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Nature, Art, Gift, Age
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Break, Chain, Weakest Link, Weakest
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Memories, Reality, Your, Close
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Same, Books, Lives, Shares
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
People, Find, Too, Time-Consuming
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Progress, Fork, Uses, Cannibal
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Monuments, Always, Save, Handy
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 Jerzy Lec
Choose, Pay, Roles, First Of All
The first requisite for immortality is death.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Death, Immortality, First, Requisite
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Doing, Sometimes, Something, Overdoing
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Window, World, Newspaper, Covered
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Brainy, Snowflake, Ever, Avalanche
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Change, Feet, Beware, Jump
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, Like, Everybody, Jump
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Truth, Never, More, Profitable
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Patience, Learn, Lot, First
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Telling, Telling Lies, Does, Advertising
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Stupid, Begins, Himself, Whenever
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Trust, Blood, Your, Wants
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Sacrifice, Mankind, Deserves
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
War, People, Get, Ideas
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Last, May, Each One, Value
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