“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać.
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
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Stanisław Lem 74
Polish science fiction author 1921–2006Related quotes
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The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?
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“When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know?”
Nick Rostu, p. 177
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“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
“His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.”
Monumenta fatiscunt:<br/>mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
Ausonius
(310–395) poet
Monumenta fatiscunt:
mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
"Epitaphia" 31: De Nomine Cuiusdam Lucii Sculpto in Marmore, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 159.
Hesiod
book
Works and Days
Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 368 (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White).