# Jardiel Poncela's wittiest quotes

"History is a lie in hardback", dictatorship where whatever is not forbidden is compulsory and barometers ignored by the weather: the wittiest maxims of Spanish humorist Enrique Jardiel Poncela.

- 26 votes · 12 items
- Feb 12, 2019 · malagagolosa
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## Top 12

1. **History is a lie in hardback.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
2. **Dictatorship: a system of government in which whatever is not forbidden is compulsory.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
3. **There are two ways to be happy: one is to play the fool, the other is to be one.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
4. **Nobody worries about money as much as the rich, except the poor.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
5. **Everybody pays attention to barometers except the weather.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
6. **Everyone who has nothing to say shouts.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
7. **Experience is what we call a chain of mistakes.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
8. **Nothing is known about death: there is government censorship in the "hereafter".** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
9. **Sincerity was invented by someone who wanted to make life miserable for others.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
10. **Friendship, like the Flood, is something everyone talks about but nobody has seen.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
11. **"Etcetera" is the rest of the wise and the excuse of the ignorant.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».
12. **If you want the highest praise, die.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Enrique Jardiel Poncela, from his «Máximas mínimas».

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