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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Love is 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.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Never insult anyone by accident.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein

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