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Quotes from I Will Fear No Evil — Robert A. Heinlein

1907–1988 United States

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14 quotes

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

When you’re rich, you don’t have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness—intelligence—among them.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

I don’t think Father Hugo is any more mistaken than the most learned theologian and he might be closer to the truth. Jacob, I don’t think anyone knows Who’s in charge.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me—death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

It’s impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he’s eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he’ll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.

I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert A. Heinlein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.