Piet Hein Quotes

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.

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

A WORD TO THE WISE

Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.

if you possess more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP

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.

Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.

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

What Love Is Like

Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY

There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.

And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.

Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T.</p>When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

Giving in is no defeat. Passing on is no retreat. Selves are made to rise above. You shall live in what you love.

Nobody can be lucky all the time,
so when your luck deserts you in some fashion
don't think you've been abandoned in your prime,
but rather that you're saving up your ration.

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

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

PRESCRIPTION

A bit
of virtue
will never
hurt you.