491 quotes
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything — just give him time to rationalize it. Forgive me for being blunt.
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Time Enough For Love (1973)
Swordplay is an odd thing; you don't really use your mind, it is much too fast for that. Your wrist thinks and tells your feet and body what to do, bypassing your brain.
A wife’s unique right, fixed by tradition, to manipulate her own husband runs unbroken and invariant at least back to Eve and the Apple. I will not criticize a sacred tradition.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
They made a good team. As a matter of fact their talents were not too far apart; the artist is two-thirds artisan and the artisan has essentially the same creative urge as the artist.
Sixth Column (1949)
But I warn you, it won’t be fun. Nobody owns a business; the business owns him. You’re a slave to it.
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Time Enough for Love (1973)
I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.
Friday (1982)
There was nothing under her clothes but girl and assorted items of lethal hardware.
The Puppet Masters (1951)
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
“Mooncraft isn’t a game; it’s the real thing. ‘Did you stay alive?’ If you make a mistake, you flunk—and they bury you.”
Off the Main Sequence (2005)
Fact is, you work too hard...the universe won’t run down if you don’t wind it.
The Star Beast (1954)
Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy.
The Puppet Masters (1951)
In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
The few VIPs I’ve met struck me as hollow shells, animated by PR men.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain.
I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
He was caught in the old dilemma of the man with unintegrated values, who eats meat but would rather somebody else did the butchering.
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
When a fact came along, he junked theories that failed to match.
Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. Nor does he feel guilt over breaking it. He simply follows the Eleventh Commandment.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)