Robert Heinlein Quotes

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.