Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

The notices of change of address and of call code had gone out earlier but it was not until we were here and our comm center reestablished that I was notified that you had not made routine acknowledgment." "For the bloody good reason that I did not receive routine notice!

As his eye ( sic ) approached the distant, rounded horizon the details softened, giving a strong effect, of stereo, of depth, of three-dimensional globularness—the world indeed was round!

Yo descargo a mis ministros de muchos de esos aburridos trabajos de colocar primeras piedras y asistir a los desfiles, ya sabe.

V armádÄ› jsou jen dvÄ› velikosti - moc velká a moc malá.

On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Serbia, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated. He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an otherwise useless piece of royalty, and to this day I have never been able to understand why this event could cause Germany to invade Belgium a month later. I

Oh, my God!" "Compose yourself.

Nóó, odpovÄ›dÄ›l Zim, dejme tomu, že jediný, co máte, je n?ž. Nebo ani to ne. Co udÄ›láte? ProstÄ› se jen pomodlíte a zhebnete? Nebo do toho pudete a donutíte ho zaplatit? Synu, tohle je opravdový - nejni to žádná Å¡achová partie, kterou m?žete vzdát, když zjistíte, že už jste moc pozadu.

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

I deduced a minor truth: gems make fine accents for female beauty—but only as accents; beauty is fundamental. Better no jewelry than to deck a lovely woman like a Christmas tree.

history is loaded with "scientists" jumping to conclusions from superficial evidence.

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence.

Go ahead and cry. Tears are lubricant for the soul. Males would be better off if they cried as easily as women

Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts; those who know this and those who do not.

that "pusillanimous Presbyterian parson" in the White House. "'Too proud to fight'! What sort of talk is that? It requires pride in order to fight. A coward slinks away with his tail between his legs. Brian, we need Teddy Roosevelt back in there!

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Rozkazy, které dostáváte, nejsou nesplnitelné, to se jenom tak zdá, protože jsou skoro nesplnitelné.

beauty will lure a man into bed, but it won't bring him back a second time, unless he's awfully young or very stupid.

Svoboda není nikdy nezcizitelná, pravidelnÄ› musí být obnovována krví vlastenc? nebo navždy zmizí. Ze vÅ¡ech takzvaných pÃ…â"¢irozených lidských práv, která kdy byla vymyÅ¡lena, je u svobody nejménÄ› pravdÄ›podobné, že bude levná, a nikdy není zadarmo.

I didn't like Martians. I did not fancy having a thing that looks like a tree trunk topped off by a sun helmet claiming the privileges of a man. I did not like the way they grew pseudo limbs; it reminded me of snakes crawling out of their holes. I did not like the fact that they could look all directions at once without turning their heads—if they had had heads, which of course they don't. And I could not stand their smell!

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

Satan, receive my soul; Jesus is a fink

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?

A doctorate is a union card to get a tenured job. It does not mean that the holder thereof is wise or learned.