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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
-- Elbert Hubbard
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
-- Elbert Hubbard
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
-- Herbert Hoover
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum
'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.
-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.
-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies ("A Voice from the Attic," 1960)
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
-- Justice Robert Jackson
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus