Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping
Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.
Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.
if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
Co-existence or no existence.
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.
I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?
Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.
To be and not to be, that is the answer.
As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
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