Put up in a place where it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishment. T.Then you feel how depressingly slowly you climb it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

— Piet Hein

THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION Sometimes, exhausted with toil and endeavor, I wish I could sleep for ever and ever;but then this reflection my longing allays:I shall be doing stone of these days.

— Piet Hein

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dose sin 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 Ableton absorb a little more.

— Piet Hein

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

— Piet Hein

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

— Piet 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

VITA BREVES A lifetimes morethansufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

— Piet Hein

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these:people may think what the devil they please.

— Piet Hein

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.

— Piet Hein

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight Olin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

— Piet Hein