Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Robert A. Heinlein.
Top 25 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings
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.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
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 - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
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.
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.
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.
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.