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Life Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
- Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
- A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good…
- My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
- There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred…
- A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
- It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that,…
- The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
- Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
- I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in…
- A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
- Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
- Life is short, but the years are long.
- There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
- An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
- Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There…
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,…
- Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle