“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
Source: Starship Troopers
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Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 2
“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?”
Life-Line (p. 15)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
Methuselah's Children (1958)
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 4, “Half a Loaf” (p. 44)
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7
“All men are created unequal.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“You live and learn. Or you don't live long.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”
Variant: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Source: Time Enough for Love