Quotes from Piet Hein

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second

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.

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds. Sun that givest all things birth, shine on everything on earth! If that's too much to demand, shine at least on this our land. If even that's too much for thee, shine at any rate on me.

Remember, things take time.

En blomst ved min elskedes seng har jeg sat, // en rose, der rødmende stod der i nat. // Først faldt der er et blad og så to os og fler, // nu tror den vist ikke på knopskydning mer.

A via da sabedoria é fácil de indicar: - errar, errar, errar! Fazer erros grandes e pequenos, mas sempre menos, sempre menos.

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.

Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?

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.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.

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

BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.