Piet Hein Quotes
BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink, owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.
MankindMen, said the Devil, are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other's.
ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through, our airiest castlestumbled over, because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.
Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.
VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.
CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.
THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.
Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit's well to remember thatThings Take Time.
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.
