Stanislaw J. Lec (1909-1966)

Quotes

• Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

• No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

• The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

• Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

• Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

• Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

• All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

• The first condition of immortality is death.

• There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.