Quotes of Robert Heinlein - somelinesforyou

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

- Robert Heinlein

“ Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artista masterand that is what Auguste Rodin wascan look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admiredbut it does to them. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artista masterand that is what Auguste Rodin wascan look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admiredbut it does to them. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. ”

- Robert Heinlein

“ Men are not potatoes! ”

- Robert Heinlein
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