Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy — a pregnant Woman.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.