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I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn
— Heinlein Robert A.
His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.
— 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
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.
— Robert A. Heinlein
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
— Robert A. Heinlein
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter
and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein
and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
— Robert A. Heinlein
("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be),
— Robert A. Heinlein
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
— Robert A. Heinlein
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In
— Robert A. Heinlein
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He shall rule them with a rod of iron. - Revelations II:25
— Robert A. Heinlein
Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Hmm...which one of us has leprosy?."
"Both of us. Jill I'm a newspaperman. — Robert A. Heinlein
"Both of us. Jill I'm a newspaperman. — Robert A. Heinlein
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Writing can be learned, but not taught.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Prof is right; more than three people can't decide anything.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Call it that if you like. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Customs, morals--is there a difference?
— Robert A. Heinlein
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.
— 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
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
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
— Robert A. Heinlein
She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.
— 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
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
— Robert A. Heinlein
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
— 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
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
— Robert A. Heinlein
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
— 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
Learning ... is - also an end in itself.
— 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
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
— 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
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
— 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
Have time to take out your soul and look at it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
— Robert A. Heinlein
All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
[A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.
— Robert A. Heinlein
nakedness is strictly forbidden.")
— Robert A. Heinlein
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A paradox may be paradoctored.
— 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
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
— 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
It comes from exercising care in the choice of parents.
— 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
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
— 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