FastSaying
It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.
Piet Hein
late
on-time
tardiness
trains
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Put up in a place
where it is 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.
— Piet Hein
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Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.
— Piet Hein
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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
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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
— Piet Hein
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
— Piet Hein