Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image ““If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn’t”” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn’t hire a proxy who may bungle it.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“The difference between a man and a dog is a dog won't bite you after you feed them” — J.T. Francis Copy Share Image
“Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It’s like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can’t have real respect for a dog that always obeys you.… — Tibor Fischer 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 Image
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 Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere… — 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 list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999… When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
