"Robert A. Heinlein - Notebooks Of Lazarus Long" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the
unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and
spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from
fiddling with it.

It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.

If you don't like yourself, you CAN'T like other people.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may
offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate --
and quickly.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in
the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons;
"Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did
Rome.

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing,
"blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure"
fighting it out for second and third place.

Cheops' Law: Nothing EVER gets built on schedule or within budget.

It is better to copulate than never.

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young
children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly
which can -- and must -- be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime
function. As racial survival is the ONLY universal morality, no other basic is
possible.
Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women
and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.
Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly --
and no doubt will keep on trying.

All men are created unequal.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.