Heinlein Robert Quotes

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

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

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

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

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play. — Robert A. Heinlein