All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
- Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing… Any
- Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically… Appeal
- Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an… Animal
- Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. Bootleggers
- God created men to test the souls of women. Created
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit… Any
- People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding… Any
- Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. Bugaboo
- Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. Birth
- If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long. Lazarus
- Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being… Battle
- If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. Admire
- There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. Easy
- Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. Adoption
- You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Appealing
- He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too. Kiss
- Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw Chance
- The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.… Any
- Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. Both
- If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long) Inspirational