Julian Tuwim's best aphorisms and epigrams
The top 3 according to 29 votes from people: Congratulations: the most polite form of envy. · "Czysta wyborowa" (clear vodka) is bad for the cleanness of elections (a pun on wybór, choice). · Patience: despair wearing the mask of virtue.. (Updated Oct 9, 2023.)
"Congratulations: the most polite form of envy", a pun on clear vodka and clean elections, and "other countries are hotels": the sharpest aphorisms and lines by the Polish poet Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), mostly from "Jarmark rymów" and "Polish Flowers", with the source.
Automatically translated (original in Polski). See the original
Top 15
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Congratulations: the most polite form of envy.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 547).
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"Czysta wyborowa" (clear vodka) is bad for the cleanness of elections (a pun on wybór, choice).
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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Patience: despair wearing the mask of virtue.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 551).
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4
Wealth: the savings of many in the hands of one.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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5
Bar: a place you go every evening for the last time in your life.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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6
Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, does not clothe that fact in words.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 545).
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7
If the egg had a different shape, / a hen's life would be monstrous.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 543).
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8
You can talk nonsense. Just not in a solemn tone.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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9
Those who speak in the name of God should show their credentials.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 546).
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10
Children talk nonsense and want to be nonsensed to. Then they grow out of it. The one who doesn't becomes a poet.
From "Pegaz dęba", his anthology of poetic oddities.
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11
To meet your most distant relatives, all you need is to get rich…
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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12
When something gets in your eye, remember it's a little piece of the cosmos.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955).
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13
My homeland / is my home. The Polish house / fell to my lot. That is my homeland, / and other countries are hotels.
From the poem "Polish Flowers" (1940–1946).
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14
Let law always mean law, / and justice mean justice.
From the poem "Polish Flowers" (1940–1946).
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15
Even after you've jumped, don't say "hop". First look at what you've jumped into.
From "Jarmark rymów" (Collected Works, Czytelnik 1955, p. 534).
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