Robert Breault Quotes & Sayings

Occasionally ask, What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? — Robert Breault

What good is love if you never ask anything of it? — Robert Breault

Am I keeping my promises? — Robert Breault

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Robert Breault

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. — Robert Breault

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. — Robert Breault

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. — Robert Breault

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. — Robert Breault

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. — Robert Breault

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon. — Robert Breault

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed — Robert Breault

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness. — Robert Breault

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. — Robert Breault

Ah, yes, my social life - a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. — Robert Breault

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. — Robert Breault

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning - for goodness sake and for heaven's sake. — Robert Breault

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. — Robert Breault

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses. — Robert Breault

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. — Robert Breault

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. — Robert Breault

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. — Robert Breault

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. — Robert Breault

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? — Robert Breault

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain. — Robert Breault

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. — Robert Breault

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. — Robert Breault

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. — Robert Breault

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. — Robert Breault

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. — Robert Breault

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. — Robert Breault

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. — Robert Breault

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always. — Robert Breault

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. — Robert Breault

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. — Robert Breault

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny. — Robert Breault

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. — Robert Breault

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault

What happens if I do nothing? — Robert Breault

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. — Robert Breault

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. — Robert Breault

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. — Robert Breault

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. — Robert Breault

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be. — Robert Breault

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. — Robert Breault

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?" — Robert Breault

Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there. — Robert Breault

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. — Robert Breault

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. — Robert Breault

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. — Robert Breault

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. — Robert Breault

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. — Robert Breault

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. — Robert Breault

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. — Robert Breault

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. — Robert Breault

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. — Robert Breault

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom." — Robert Breault

To accept reality is only to encourage it. — Robert Breault

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. — Robert Breault

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. — Robert Breault

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. — Robert Breault

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. — Robert Breault

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. — Robert Breault

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. — Robert Breault

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. — Robert Breault

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. — Robert Breault

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling — Robert Breault

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. — Robert Breault

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders. — Robert Breault

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. — Robert Breault

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one. — Robert Breault

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. — Robert Breault

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. — Robert Breault

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. — Robert Breault

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. — Robert Breault

We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. — Robert Breault

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. — Robert Breault

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses. — Robert Breault

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate. — Robert Breault

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. — Robert Breault

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. — Robert Breault

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down. — Robert Breault

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. — Robert Breault

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling. — Robert Breault

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge — Robert Breault

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. — Robert Breault

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. — Robert Breault

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. — Robert Breault

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. — Robert Breault

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. — Robert Breault

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles. — Robert Breault

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. — Robert Breault

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. — Robert Breault

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. — Robert Breault