Man is the animal who laughs,
Robert A. Heinlein
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
SAMUEL BUTLER For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the di...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the differ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicat...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
ROBERT HEINLEIN If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.
SUZY KASSEM Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Man is the only animal species who dont believe eachother.
SHANNY Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accostumed to everything.
FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKY Any man who laughs at women's clothes has never paid the bill for them.
UNKNOWN There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT When a man plans, a woman laughs.
DAVID WONG Man is a bad animal....
BRION GYSIN A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
OLEG CASSINI A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
CHIEF JOSEPH He laughs best who laughs last.
ENGLISH PROVERB Women should be obscene and not heard.
PAUL MEREDITH POTTER Man is a clothed animal; almost.
AHMED MOSTAFA Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the lowest animal.
MARK TWAIN He who laughs last laughs ... doesn't get it.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is by nature a civic animal.
ARISTOTLE Man is by nature a political animal.
FISHER AMES Man is by nature a political animal.
ARISTOTLE I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever give...
OSCAR WILDE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
JOHN MASEFIELD Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dict...
OSCAR WILDE Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
ROBERT BLOCH The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homm...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
MICHAEL CHABON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
PLATO Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the ...
ORSON WELLES Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the ...
OSCAR WILDE Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance wit...
OSCAR WILDE When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n...
ERNEST BECKER You can judge a man by what he laughs at.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.
AMIT KALANTRI "Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your in...
ROBERT COLLIER I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of p...
JOSEPH R. KRUTCH The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a ...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfi...
HENRY GEORGE Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
LEWIS CARROLL He who laughs.....lasts.
ANONYMOUS He who laughs, lasts!
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE He who laughs, lasts.
JOHN POWELL He who laughs, lasts.
NORWEGIAN PROVERB It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chie...
ERNEST BECKER Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of anima...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
THOMAS BROWNE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
PLATO Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is clo...
SORIN CERIN Who laughs less than feminists?
TUCKER CARLSON Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with...
ADAM SMITH Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden ha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...
OSCAR WILDE Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure o...
GHOSE AUROBINDO He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE He who laughs last thinks slowest!
UNKNOWN He who laughs most, learns best
JOHN CLEESE Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with anothe...
ADAM SMITH He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet,
JOHN RINGO Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimis...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never try to outstubborn a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealou...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I grok in fullness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest lan...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attenti...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conj...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you m...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were rem...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN 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 One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of go...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most am...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody lies about sex.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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