Robert A. Heinlein Love Quotations

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

Love your country, but never trust its government.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

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

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Love is the 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 -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.

Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A