Piet Pieterszoon Hein quotes:

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

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

Co-existence or no existence.

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.

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

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

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

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

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.