Top 100 Jerzy Lec Quotes
#1. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
#2. Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
#3. Telling lies does not work in advertising.
#4. Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
#5. The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
#6. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
#7. Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
#8. A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
#9. Pants get shiny even on a throne.
#10. You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
#11. One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
#12. Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
#13. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
#14. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.
#15. We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
#16. Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
#17. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
#18. Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand
#19. Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
#20. The first requisite for immortality is death.
#21. Illiterates have to dictate.
#22. If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
#23. Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
#24. Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.
#25. Oh, to know God's private address.
#26. Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
#27. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
#28. The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
#29. Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
#30. Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
#31. Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
#32. Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
#33. You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
#34. He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
#35. To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
#36. Powerless rage can work miracles.
#37. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
#38. A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
#39. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
#40. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
#41. Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
#42. Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
#43. The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
#44. The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
#45. Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
#46. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
#47. Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
#48. How many prison years in the years since Christ!
#49. We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.
#50. The exit is usually where the entrance was.
#51. Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
#52. "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
#53. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.
#54. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
#55. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
#56. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
#57. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
#58. When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
#59. He who limps is still walking.
#60. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
#61. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
#62. Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
#63. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
#64. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
#65. Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.
#66. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
#67. Do not make gods in your own images.
#68. A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
#69. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
#70. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
#71. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
#72. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
#73. Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.
#74. Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
#75. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
#76. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.
#77. Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
#78. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
#79. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
#80. Do I believe? God only knows.
#81. There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
#82. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
#83. If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
#84. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
#85. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
#86. When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
#87. A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.
#88. The first condition of immortality is death.
#89. An error becomes an error when born as truth.
#90. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
#91. 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.
#92. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
#93. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
#94. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
#95. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
#96. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.
#97. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
#98. All Gods were immortal.
#99. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
#100. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
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