Love Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

38 Love quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein says love is when another person's happiness feels as essential as your own. He notes that love cannot be forced or conquered, only shared. He also reminds us that love needs time beyond work and that curiosity drives us to understand it.

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Responsibility cannot be shared.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

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Gentlemen, let's go row!

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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

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Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

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How can you argue with a woman who won't?

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There is no such thing as "Just a cat.

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Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

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A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

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The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.

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Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

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“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”

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Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

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If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend.

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Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

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I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too…

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“...the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.”

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I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the…

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Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

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On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things…

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The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

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First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the…

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The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many…

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“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the…

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“She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned—rather slowly; I wasn’t too good a pupil, being set in my…

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Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty,…

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“Two bodies attract each other directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance.' It sounds…

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It is better to copulate than never.

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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

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People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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

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It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

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When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

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

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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

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Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“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”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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