1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

Gentlemen, let's go row!

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.