Quote #11

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 remember that Things Take Time. (Danish: Ting Tager Tid)

More from Piet Hein

  1. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
  2. The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
  3. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
  4. The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
  5. Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
  6. Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
  7. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
  8. 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.

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