Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.

I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

Population pressure works much like a rising river. You can put up dikes or levees, but the day comes when the river has to go somewhere.

“Happiness,” Jubal stated, “lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.”

I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue — indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents — people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

I missed my slipstick. Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty — a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig. Dad surprised me with it after I mastered a ten-inch polyphase. We ate potato soup that week — but Dad says you should always budget luxuries first. I knew where it was. Home on my desk.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.

From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Every closet has a skeleton. This is a natural law.