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.

Quote by Robert A Heinlein

Topics: Robert A Heinlein Quotes

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy...

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy...

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I...

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I...

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier...

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier...

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth...

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth...

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Never insult anyone by accident.

Never insult anyone by accident.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of...

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of...

Never insult anyone by accident.

Never insult anyone by accident.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

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

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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...