Robert A. Heinlein

“I came, I saw, she conquered.” (The original Latin seems to have been garbled.)

“My mistake and it may be my last one.”

“Woodrow! Don’t talk that way!”

“Sorry, dear. But there is always a last mistake.”

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity.

A man who refuses to take his own death into account in making plans is a fool. A self-centered fool who does not love anyone.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

He saw that he had committed the prime sin against survival: He had indulged in wishful thinking.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent — it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy — a pregnant woman.