lazarus long quotes

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
-- Lazarus Long

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
-- Lazarus Long

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"

Don't try to have the last word -- you might get it.
-- Lazarus Long

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is none
of my business, but --" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use
excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat
is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn
old falsehoods.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's
side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little
else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in
a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
-- Lazarus Long

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
-- Lazarus Long

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
-- Lazarus Long

Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
-- Lazarus Long

$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at
which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at
which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
-- Lazarus Long

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn
old falsehoods.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"

Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Never try to outstubborn a cat.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
-- Lazarus Long