Robert Louis Stevenson

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A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis StevensonIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis StevensonIt is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. Robert Louis StevensonKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis StevensonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. Robert Louis StevensonThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis StevensonBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. Robert Louis Stevenson, Beggars, 1903 To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874

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Robert Herrick

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Robert Herrick

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Robert Herrick

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Robert Herrick

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
Robert Herrick

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick

Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Robert Herrick

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick

Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick

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Robert Byrne

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert ByrneGetting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert ByrneLearning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne Partying is such sweet sorrow. Robert ByrneThere are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. Robert ByrneUntil you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. Robert Byrne

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Robert J. Sawyer

Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000Honor does not have to be defended. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000 How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000 Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000 Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000 You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Type: Writer
Nationality: Scottish
Born: November 13, 1850
Died: December 3, 1894

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Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton

A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton

A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton

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Type: Writer
Nationality: English
Born: February 8, 1577
Died: January 25, 1640

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Robert A. Heinlein

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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

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Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: July 7, 1907
Died: May 8, 1988

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Robert Benchley

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
Robert Benchley

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley

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Type: Comedian
Nationality: American
Born: September 15, 1889
Died: September 21, 1945

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Robert Orben

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert OrbenMost people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. Robert Orben Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. Robert Orben Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. Robert OrbenThere's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. Robert OrbenTo err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Robert Orben

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Type: Writer
Nationality: Scottish
Born: November 13, 1850
Died: December 3, 1894

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Robert Byrne

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
Robert Byrne

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Robert Byrne

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne

Prejudices save time.
Robert Byrne

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne

To err is human, to purr feline.
Robert Byrne

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne

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Robert Orben

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
Robert Orben

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben

I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
Robert Orben

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben

If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.
Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!
Robert Orben

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
Robert Orben

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben

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Robert Heinlein

Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. Robert Heinlein Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well. Robert HeinleinOf course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. Robert HeinleinOne might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed. Robert HeinleinWriting is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. Robert Heinlein The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984 People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"A motion to adjourn is always in order. Robert Heinlein, Lazarus Long: Time Enough For LoveThou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God. Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange LandProgress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For LoveThere is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for LoveA poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978

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Robert Frost

Showing quotations 1 to 18 of 18 total A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert FrostEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. Robert FrostIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert FrostLove is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost The best way out is always through. Robert FrostThe brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert FrostThe world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert FrostYou can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert FrostI never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost, 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black CottageTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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Robert A. Heinlein

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert Frost

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost

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Robert Byrne

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert ByrneGetting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert ByrneLearning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne Partying is such sweet sorrow. Robert ByrneThere are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. Robert ByrneUntil you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. Robert Byrne

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Robert Benchley

Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. Robert BenchleyAnyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. Robert Benchley As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. Robert Benchley Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. Robert Benchley I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. Robert BenchleyIt took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Benchley There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. Robert Benchley, Benchley's Law of Distinction

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Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. Robert BenchleyAnyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. Robert Benchley As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. Robert Benchley Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. Robert Benchley I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. Robert BenchleyIt took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Benchley There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. Robert Benchley, Benchley's Law of Distinction

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
Robert Benchley

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley

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