Robert A. Heinlein idézet

oldal 18

„Ne hozd hátrányos helyzetbe gyermekeid azzal, hogy megkönnyíted az életüket.”

„A prűd egy olyan személy, aki azt gondolja, hogy a saját illendőségi szabályai természetes törvények.”

„Lehet béke és lehet szabadság. De soha ne számolj azzal, hogy mindkettő egyszerre lessz.”

„Nincs rosszabb zsarnokság, mint arra kényszeríteni az embert, hogy fizessen valamiért, amiért nem akar, pusztán azért, mert úgy gondoljuk, hogy az jó lenne a számára.”

„A szerelem az az állapot, amelyben egy másik ember boldogsága elengedhetetlen a saját boldogságod számára.”

„Soha ne próbálj meg egy disznót énekelni tanítani; ez csak időpocsékolás, és a disznót is idegesíti.”

„Olyan feltételeket tulajdonítottál a gazemberségnek, amelyek egyszerűen az ostobaságból fakadnak.”

„Soha ne próbálj meg túlszárnyalni egy macskát.”

„A bűn csak abban rejlik, hogy szükségtelenül megbántunk másokat. Minden más "bűn" kitalált ostobaság. Saját magadat bántani nem bűn - csak ostobaság.”

“Why do you like to play chess so well?”

“Rotation through a fourth dimension can’t affect a three-dimensional figure any more than you can shake letters off a printed page.”

“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.”

“What course of action do you favor?”

“You have to believe evidence when you have it in front of you, or else the universe is just too fantastic.”

“Attend me. How do you prove that there are eggs in a bird’s nest? Don’t strain your gray matter: go climb the tree and find out. There is no other way.”

“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”

“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”

“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”

“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”

“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”

“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”

“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”

“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”

“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”

“But I do not willingly involve us in nationalistic wars; the side of the angels is seldom self-evident.”

“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”

“Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.”

“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”

“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”

“I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.”

“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”

“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”

“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”

“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”

“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”

“The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense.”

“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”

“I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “charming” by men is to listen while they talk.”