Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert A. Heinlein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Public
Reads
Art
Verses
May
Nasty
Habits
Entertainment
Poet
Habit
Poetry
Verse
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
Robert A. Heinlein
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
Robert A. Heinlein
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Robert A. Heinlein
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
Robert A. Heinlein
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.
Robert A. Heinlein
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
Robert A. Heinlein
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
Robert A. Heinlein
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
Robert A. Heinlein
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Robert A. Heinlein
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
Robert A. Heinlein
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
Robert A. Heinlein
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
Robert A. Heinlein
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
Robert A. Heinlein
Die trying is the proudest human thing.
Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein
