Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Sex
Healthy
Love
Related Quotes:
" I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Article
See
How
" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "
Robert A. Heinlein
End
Tyranny
Church
" One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Science
Authority
Done
" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Theory
Worry
Long
" 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. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness
Jealousy
Love
" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Magic
Engineering
Word
" Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Your
Writing
Wash
" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Never
Learned
Me
" Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Your
Temptation
May
" To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Real
Strange
Wonderful
" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Made
Because
Authority
" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Being
Unacceptable
Soon
" They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Wanted
Want
Wednesday
" By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Flowers
Beautiful
Good
" It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Piece
Gossip
Sit
" The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Scholarship
Difference
Science
" One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Others
Life
Good
" There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Way
Isolation
Food
" It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Religion
Power
Law
" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Never
Who
Protocol
" When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Travel
Best
Place
" An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Manners
Life
Good
" Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Impossible
Done
Everything
" A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy
Person
Insecurity
" Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Events
Pessimist
Fun
" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Laugh
Another
Theology
" Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Help
Never
Searching
" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Universe
Never
Government
" Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Making
Easy
Your
" Never insult anyone by accident. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone
Never
Insult