Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for-if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us - us humans - death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.