Quotes from Stanislaw Lec

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

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

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

He who limps still walks.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

The first condition of immortality is death.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

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

Value your words. Each one may be the last.