Top 682 Quotes & Sayings by Robert A. Heinlein - Page 12

Everybody lies about sex.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

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.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

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