The first condition of immortality is death.

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

—Stanislaw J. Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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

—Stanislaw J. Lec

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

—Plato

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

—Pindar

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

—Herb Caen