The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. — 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
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — 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
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward. — 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
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the… — 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
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“This very personal relationship, ‘value,’ has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with a thing, its use… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion” — 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
