Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. — 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
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry. — 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,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it… — 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
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse… — 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
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead… — 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… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — 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
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not… — 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
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