
A Fling
Thinking causes lots of pain Talking doesn't cost a thing Therefore, rest your weary brain And give your tongue a fling.
The Road to Wisdom
The road to wisdom? – Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
Living Is
Living is
a thing to do.
Now or Never
Which do you ?
What Love is Like
Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.
Pornography
My reading of Pornography convinces me afresh that satisfaction of the flesh are better in the flesh.
Dream Interpretation
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
A Toast
The soul may be a mere pretence, the mind makes very little sense. So let us value the appeal of that which we can taste and feel.
Mankind
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don't want to mend
their own ways, but each other's.
Taught
We are taught to live, we are taught to feel. We are taught to conform and conceal.
We are taught so well what we ought to feel that we cannot feel what we feel.
Naive
Naive you are
if you believe
Life favours those
who aren't naive.
Good Advice
Shun advice
at any price -
That's what I call
Good Advice.
Problems
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
Inscription for a monument at the crossroads (An Epitaph)
Here lies, extinguished in his prime, a victim of modernity: but yesterday he hadn't the time -- and now he has eternity.
Above are Excerpted writings of the Emperor of Epigrams : Piet Hein (1905-1996). He was a Danish Scientist, Mathematician, Inventor, Author and Poet who lived in Denmark. His grooks were aphorisms of rhymed epigrams characterised by irony, brevity, paradox and satire.
Epigram - A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
Compiled by : Aparna Chatterjee
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