Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Fighting, Hands

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.475, Penguin

• No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Age, Eighteen

• Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Age, Youth

  "Methuselah's Children". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1958.

• One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Age, Might, Accepting

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.

• I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Ignorance, Grandmother

• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Giving, Perspective

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

• At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kings, People, Age

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

• A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Nurse, Wife

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.171, Penguin

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