Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
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Do steers sign treaties with meat packers? Robert A
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Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
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Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
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A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.