“ THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. And if someone at the tablehad reminded… Piet Hein
“ 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. Piet Hein
“ BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't. Piet Hein
“ DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything's eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex. 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 SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are. Piet Hein
“ VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong. Piet Hein
“ A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIPWhenever 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 c… Piet Hein
“ Losing one glove is certainly painful,but nothing compared to the pain,of losing one, throwing away the other,and finding the first one again. Piet Hein
“ Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. Piet Hein
“ THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTIONSometimes, exhaustedwith toil and endeavour,I wish I could sleepfor ever and ever;but then this reflectionmy longing allays:I shall be doing itone of these days. Piet Hein
“ Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards. Piet Hein
“ CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low,it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright. Piet Hein
“ WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink,owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please. Piet Hein
“ ASTRO-GYMNASTICSGo on a starlit night, stand on your head,leave your feet dangling outwards into space,and let the starry firmament you treadbe, for the moment, your elected base.Feel Earth's colossal… Piet Hein
“ Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said. Piet Hein
“ ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over. Piet Hein
