Long Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

— Robert A. Heinlein

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Life is short, but the years are long.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

— Robert A. Heinlein

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

— Robert A. Heinlein

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You…

— Robert A. Heinlein

When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to…

— Robert A. Heinlein