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I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It comes from exercising care in the choice of parents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't
— Robert A. Heinlein
Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Learning ... is - also an end in itself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
— Robert A. Heinlein
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You
— Robert A. Heinlein
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
— Robert A. Heinlein
She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
— Robert A. Heinlein