Robert A. Heinlein: Trending quotes (page 10)

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

“It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.”

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

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

“I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey…”

“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.”

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.”

“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

“Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse”

“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”

“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”