Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
