Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
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
Benefit
Debt
Spending
Benefits
Taxes
Liberty
Levied
Politics
Taxed
Libertarian
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
Robert A. Heinlein
Budget the luxuries first.
Robert A. Heinlein
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
Robert A. Heinlein
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
Robert A. Heinlein
I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert A. Heinlein
The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.
Robert A. Heinlein
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
Robert A. Heinlein
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Robert A. Heinlein
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
Robert A. Heinlein
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
Robert A. Heinlein
Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert A. Heinlein
Was there ever a time when the majority was right?
Robert A. Heinlein
