(34 quotes found)
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein
“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.”
“Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.”
“No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.”
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”
“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...”
“In a family argument, if it turns out you are right -- apologize at once!”
Lazarus Long
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”
“Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.”
Contributed by: Andy James
“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”