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The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Mankind
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don't want to mend
their own ways, but each other's. — Piet Hein

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself! — Piet Hein

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. — Piet Hein

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago. — Piet Hein

SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him. — Piet Hein

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

PRESCRIPTION

A bit
of virtue
will never
hurt you. — Piet Hein

Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996) — Piet Hein

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

BRAVE
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't. — Piet Hein

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key — Piet Hein

THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular
Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent. — Piet Hein

As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second — Piet Hein

Love while you've love to give.
Live while you've got life to live. — Piet Hein

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex. — Piet Hein

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. — Piet Hein

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

VITA BREVIS
A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong. — Piet Hein

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next. — Piet Hein

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you? — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out. — Piet Hein

To be and not to be, that is the answer. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. — Piet Hein

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

ABREAST
He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best. — Piet Hein

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES
How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are. — Piet Hein

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Co-existence or no existence. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

REFLECTION ON SIZE
Small people often overrate
the charm of being tall;
which is, that you appreciate
the charm of being small. — Piet Hein