1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.