The best Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Love

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Life Love

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Foolishness

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy!

Children & Childhood Upbringing

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Sex

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Cats Dogs Men & Women

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Violence

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

Writing

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge

Past glories are poor feeding.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Death

He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Starship Troopers

Wise Sayings

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Violence Hiroshima

I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

Starship Troopers

They sucked his brains out.

Starship Troopers

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

California

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

California

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

California

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

Ethel: "One day the entire family will be reunited in the Garden of Eden."
"Oh, like heaven?"
Ethel: "No, it's in Missouri."
"Oh. Eden's got a lot of methheads."

Shameless - Season 2 Episode 5

Missouri

Did you know only one US president has been born in Missouri?
It's true, man.

Harry S. Truman Missouri

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Missouri - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Missouri

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Bob Marley

Love

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Upbringing

If you want more sex, just ask for it.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

Sex Erotic Quotes

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Cats

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Marley & Me

Animals Dogs

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

A long time ago... a man showed me how to predict the future. Our foundation to save humanity was born.

Gaal Dornick in Foundation - Season 2

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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