Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quotes

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

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

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

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

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

Co-existence or no existence.