It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with… — 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
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source)… — 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 Image
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 Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
