Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong – but the man who refuses to take sides must “always” be wrong! Heaven save us from poltroons who fear to make a choice.

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can – and must – be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect […]

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

The trouble with adopting a cat is that they always have kittens.

Such rules look very pretty on paper; in practice they are as foolish and footless as the attempt of the mice to bell the cat.

Never pick up a stray kitten… unless you’ve already made up your mind to be owned by it.