I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
      Katharine Whitehorn

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
      Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
      Robert Heinlein

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and giving it to the other.
      Voltaire

The things men live by are rarely subject to logical proof.
      Robert Heinlein

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
      Robert Heinlein

There's no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
      Gore Vidal

Has it ever occurred to you that God might be a committee?
      Robert Heinlein

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
      Mae West

No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded
      Robert Heinlein

To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
      Erasmus Darwin

No one is ever responsible for another person's actions.
      Robert Heinlein

Are you in charge here?
No, but I have lots of good ideas!
      Dr. Who

No matter how lavishly overpaid, civil servents everywhere are convinced that they are horribly underpaid - but all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn't be feeding at the public trough.
      Robert Heinlein

A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to some real money.
      Senator Everett Dirksen

The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
      Robert Heinlein

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
      Robert Heinlein

When you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.
      Robert Heinlein

The future is much like the present, only longer.
      Don Quisenberry

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
      Robert Heinlein

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
      Robert Heinlein

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
      Robert Heinlein

Responsibility cannot be shared.
      Robert Heinlein

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
      W. C. Fields

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
      Robert Heinlein

I would have made a good pope.
      Richard M. Nixon

'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
      Robert Heinlein

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surely curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
      Robert Heinlein

If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.
      Mrs. William Gladstone, to her husband

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
      Alexis de Tocqueville

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
      Will Rogers

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
      Jeff Valdez

When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become a President; I'm beginning to believe it.
      Clarence Darrow

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
      Robert Heinlein

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverence, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually the hardest to come by.
      Stephen Baker

I married beneath me. All women do.
      Nancy, Lady Astor

It was such a lovely day, I thought it was a pity to get up.
      W. Somerset Maugham

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
      H. L. Mencken

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
      Evan Davis

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
      C. G. Jung

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
      Richard Nixon

For the rest of my life, I want to reflect on what light is.
      Albert Einstein, 1916

Man is free the moment he wants to be.
      Voltaire

All Rights Reserved.