Home / Quotes / Quote by Piet Hein

Quote by Piet Hein

“CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.”

Quote by Piet Hein

Author

Piet Hein

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Piet Hein. more

“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.”

Life Age Courage Old Age Illusions Odd Thomas Eddie Fischer

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling them so - that the maturity that wanted was going to happen, that someday they would look as completed as they felt, in their fleeting, truest moments.”

Kids Age Youth

Book:The Half Brother

Source: The Half Brother

“You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

Age Woman

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction.”

Life Age Satisfaction Live Will Old Look Make

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies , evasions , folly , hatred and .”

Age Politics Schizophrenia

Author:George Orwell

“How can you possibly reconcile the great inequities of gender – coupled with the perversions of age and the randomness of everything?”

Age Gender

Book:The Sunken Cathedral

Source: The Sunken Cathedral

“We’d come home drunk and lie in bed, I’d ask what was on his mind since something always was. He’d ignore it until I grabbed his hands and pinned him down. He didn’t think I loved him because I always wrote about my ex-boyfriend. Truth is, I did and I do love him. But it just doesn’t come when you’re happy.”

Love Life Truth Happiness Sadness Thoughts Past Love Thinking About It Current Love

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you?”

Age Youthful Optimism

Author:Amit Abraham

“One is never too late to become young at heart.”

Life Heart Age Youth Lateness

Author:Nadun Lokuliyanage

Quote by Piet Hein

Author

You May Also Like