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“Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“Remember, though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp—provided it’s loaded.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky

Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 1, “The Marching Hordes” (p. 14)

“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“God created men to test the souls of women.”

Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice

Source: Job: A Comedy of Justice

“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for… but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 235)

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Variant: I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Between Planets

Source: Between Planets