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  • Privateer
  • 1577 - 1629
  • 33 quotes

Piet Pieterszoon Hein, a privateer (1577 - 1629), is quoted 33 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Mind, Art, Lifetime and Two.

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Co-existence or no existence.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

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

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

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.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.

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 affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

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