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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.
— Jo Walton
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much ... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
— Robert A. Heinlein
All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training.
— 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 took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We're simply trying to survive - and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Gentlemen, let's go row!
— Robert A. Heinlein
If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
— Robert A. Heinlein
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't pay much attention to politics.""You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat. — Robert A. Heinlein
But it's a hell of a note when you can't even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Sit back down - and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
— Robert A. Heinlein
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
— Gregory Benford
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The marks won't listen if it's free.
— Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Specialization is for insects ... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The duty of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose.
— Robert A. Heinlein
That's a subject as safe as being in favor of Christmas.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!
— Robert A. Heinlein
Captain, that's not your style; you don't want to make money, you simply want to have money - in order to spend it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
— 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
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright.
— 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
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
— 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 have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
— 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
Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law.""They are? Only from on top. — 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
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's better to copulate than not.
— Robert A. Heinlein
One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?
— Robert A. Heinlein
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
— Robert A. Heinlein
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;
— Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
— Robert A. Heinlein
When there's nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There's no way it can hurt, and it might help.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
— Robert A. Heinlein
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader - when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
— Robert A. Heinlein
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
— Robert A. Heinlein
All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect.
— Robert A. Heinlein
