The best Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

For generations, Warsaw has stood where liberty has been challenged and liberty has prevailed.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Warsaw - which is kinda the same.

People spend more time talking than thinking.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Few people think, but many want to rule.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

"There's perfect men around every corner", said God an made the Earth round.

Working out makes people more comfortable with their naked bodies. So does Tequila.

I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood.

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

One way or another, everyone stops bleeding.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Strength lies in knowing oneself.

No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.

It's a tough time, but these are the best years. Believe me.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

You have your whole life to be old but a few years to be young.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You're never too old to be young.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.