Piet Pieterszoon Hein famous quotes

Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Dream #Sex #Vex

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Mean #May #Please

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

#Excellence #May #Universe

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.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Humble #Artist #Hands

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 Pieterszoon Hein

#Air #Mind #Way

Co-existence or no existence.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Existence

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Pests

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

#Cooking #Foe #Behinds

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Eight #Posse

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Giving

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Problem #Problem Solvers #Evolve

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

#Fun #Experts #Done

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

#Advice #Good Advice

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

#Wise #Fool #Compromise

To be and not to be, that is the answer.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Answers

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Given #Prize #Unwise

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

#Yield #Way #Fields

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

#Self #People #Degrees

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Time #Achievement #Remember

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Art #Artist

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Life #Two #Keys

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

#Art #Race #Mind

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Mind #Doe #Speech

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

#Fun #Two #Shows

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

#Sports #Sex #Healthy

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

#Achievement #Kind #Maximum

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Art #Might #Different

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Now Or Never

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Lifetime #Eternity

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Sweet #Love Is #Pineapples

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Believe #Favour #If You Believe

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Thinking #Reason #Said

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Long #People #Lifetime