People find life entirely too time-consuming.
More quotes from Stanislaw Lec
Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals – they always come in handy.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
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.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Mankind deserves sacrifice – but not of mankind.
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.