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Category: 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.

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

speakers, speeches

The road to wisdom? Well it’s plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.

failures, mistakes

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 me before -Hallelujah! I’d be ableto absorb a little more.

appetite, dining, food, sated

Nobody can be lucky all the time,so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon’t think you’ve been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you’re saving up your ration.

As Eternity has reckonedThere’s a lifetime in a second

eternity, life, time

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 affairwhile you’re passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you’re hoping.

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.

people, think, thinking-for-yourself

PRESCRIPTION A bitof virtuewill neverhurt you.

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 chance shall decide the affairwhile you’re passively standing there moping;but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you’re hoping.

decision-making, decisions, hope

MankindMen, said the Devil,are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other’s.

ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.

planning, problems