Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. (needs chapter and page reference, please)

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

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.

I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

“Why do you think this gossip is true?”
“Uh…I heard it and checked around. Everybody knows it.”
“So? Everybody knew the Earth was flat, at one time.”

I don’t think Father Hugo is any more mistaken than the most learned theologian and he might be closer to the truth. Jacob, I don’t think anyone knows Who’s in charge.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts; those who know this and those who do not.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

Men! Their minds were devious—they seemed to like twisted ways of doing things. It confirmed her opinion that men should not be allowed to vote.

"Love" is a 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

When you’re rich, you don’t have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Any cipher can be broken, any code can be compromised. But the most exact academic knowledge of a language gives no clue to its slang, its colloquial allusions, its half statements, over statements, and inverted meanings.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit