# I Will Fear No Evil

- Author: [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil

## Quotes

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

p. 400 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/between-being-right.md)

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

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/we-may-eliminate.md)

> “Going to dance at my wake?”
>
> “I don’t dance,” the lawyer answered, “but you tempt me to learn.”

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/going-to-dance.md)

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

p. 442 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/i-have-never.md)

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

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/fighting-continued-on-a-token.md)

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

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/what-we-think.md)

> 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.

p. 427 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/its-impossible-for.md)

> 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.

p. 488 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/death-is-an-old.md)

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

p. 452 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/boats-and-ships.md)

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

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/im-not-trying.md)

> 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.

p. 459 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/i-dont-think.md)

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

p. 473 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/i-think-the.md)

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

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/a-man-who.md)

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

p. 408 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/when-youre-rich.md)

> 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.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/from-my-point.md)