Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Greek proverb
1908-1988. American science-fiction writer.
1. "You live and learn. Or you don't live long."
Categories: Life and Death -:- Education
2. "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Peace and War
3. "Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)"
source: "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
Categories: Forgiveness -:- Woman and Man
4. "Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
Categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
5. "There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?"
Categories: Life and Death
6. "The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."
source: "Starship Troopers"
Categories: Patriotism -:- Destiny and Fate
7. "Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
Categories: Science and Technology
8. "Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level."
Categories: Manners and Ethics
9. "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
Categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals
10. "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
source: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Categories: Happiness -:- Love
11. "In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.""
Categories: Authority, Government
12. "Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft."
Categories: Law and Crime
13. "Don't try to have the last word. You might get it."
Categories: Various
14. "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
source: "Time Enough for Love"
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Education
15. "Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)"
source: "Time Enough for Love"
Categories: Bravery and Fear
16. "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. "
source: "Time Enough for Love"
Categories: Nature and Animals
17. "An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications."
source: "Time Enough for Love"
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Nature and Animals
18. "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
source: "Time Enough for Love"
Categories: Various
19. "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."
Categories: Manners and Ethics
20. "Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."
Categories: Youth and Age
21. "A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."
Categories: History and Nations -:- Youth and Age
22. "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."
Categories: Various
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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