A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom . . . and the other twenty percent isn’t very important.
Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training
The word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
…certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..
When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.
Most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
It’s well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out. Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that...
Good luck’ follows careful preparation; ‘bad luck’ comes from sloppiness.
Yes, yes, I know they make better pilots than men do; their reactions are faster, and they can tolerate more gee. They can get in faster, get out faster, and thereby improve everybody’s chances, yours...
With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.
What did I want? I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword,. I wanted raw red gold in nugg...
What a man doesn’t know he can’t spill if he is captured; neither drugs, nor torture, nor brainwash, nor endless lack of sleep can squeeze out a secret he doesn’t possess.
Well, I’ll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn’t upset people quite so much.
We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.
We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets are the reward.
We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.
Unexpected discorporation was always rare on Mars; Martian taste in such matters called for life to be a rounded whole, with physical death taking place at the appropriate and selected instant. This a...
To be court-martialed—for any reason—is eight times as bad for an officer as for an enlisted man. Offenses which will get privates kicked out (maybe with lashes, possibly without) rate death in an off...
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded—here and there, now and then—are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised...