Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909-03-06 - 1966-05-07) was a Polish poet and aphorist.
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- "Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać."
- Translation: "When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
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- "Wszystko jest w rękach człowieka. Dlatego należy je często myć."
- Translation: "All is in the hands of man. Therefore you should wash them often."
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- "Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe."
- Translation: "There were grammatical errors even in his silence."
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- "'Pogrożę mu tylko palcem'" - rzekł, kładąc go na cynglu."
- Translation: "'I will just wag my finger at him', he said, putting it on the trigger."
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- A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
- Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
- To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
- We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.
- Cited by Hermann Scheer in his book Energy Autonomy
- The exit is usually where the entrance was."
- He who limps is still walking.
- In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
- The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
- Even a glass eye can see its blindness.
- To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
- I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
- You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
- Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
- Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? (Hence the title Cannibals with Forks by John Elkington)
- If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
- Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
- If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
- Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- The first condition of immortality is death.
- Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
