Robert A. Heinlein Love Quotations

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Love your country, but never trust its government.

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

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.

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

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

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

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.

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.