Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long. — 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
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. — 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
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
