Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Education, Children

• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Life, War

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Hurt, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.295, Penguin

• Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Success, Inspire

• A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Society, Trouble Maker

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.23, Penguin

• My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Cutting, Men

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

• The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Littles

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.175, Penguin

• Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Minutes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Evil, Cold

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

• By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Animal, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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