Robert A. Heinlein

A government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. You hit it, it will fight back.

Robert A. Heinlein

A little more money won’t do you any good – because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

Robert A. Heinlein

A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Robert A. Heinlein

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an ‘intellectual’ – find out how he feels about astrology.

Robert A. Heinlein

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

Robert A. Heinlein

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Robert A. Heinlein

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Robert A. Heinlein