1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

I don’t trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. “Logic” proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.

In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.

If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people. – Lazarus Long.

Big money isn’t hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Don’t tell me violence doesn’t solve anything. Look at Carthage.

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.