Quote #10

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

More from Piet Hein

  1. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
  2. Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to reme…
  3. Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
  4. The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
  5. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
  6. The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
  7. Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
  8. Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

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