Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 4

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Oh, to know God's private address.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

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

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.