Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?
Most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.
Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
The word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
When there's nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There's no way it can hurt, and it might help.
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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.
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.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
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
Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.
One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?