Living ISA thing you donor or never --which do you?

— Piet Hein

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

— Piet Hein

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

— Piet Hein

Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mend their own ways, but each other's.

— Piet Hein

Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards.

— Piet Hein

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.

— Piet Hein

ON PROBLEMS Our choicest plan shave fallen through, our airiest castle stumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.

— Piet Hein

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds. Sun that gives tall things birth, shine on everything on earth! If that's too much to demand, shine at least on this our land. If even that's too much for thee, shine at any rate on me.

— Piet Hein

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

— Piet Hein

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

— Piet Hein