Breault Quotes & Sayings

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. — Robert Breault

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. — Robert Breault

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. — Robert Breault

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

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. — Robert Breault

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

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: - love - friendship - understanding - appreciation - tolerance - a helping hand - a leg up - an answer — Robert Breault

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. — Robert Breault

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. — 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

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. — Robert Breault

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. — Robert Breault

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. — Robert Breault

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist. — Natasha Lyonne

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more. — Robert Breault

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. — Robert Breault

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. — Robert Breault

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. — Robert Breault

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? — Robert Breault

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. — 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

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

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. — Robert Breault

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. — Robert Breault

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. — Robert Breault

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. — Robert Breault

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. — Robert Breault

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers. — Robert Breault

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault

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

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. — Robert Breault

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. — Robert Breault

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. — Robert Breault

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. — 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

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. — Robert Breault

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. — Robert Breault

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. — 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

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers. — Robert Breault

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. — Robert Breault

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. — Robert Breault

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. — Robert Breault

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand. — Robert Breault

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

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

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. — Robert Breault

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all. — 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

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. — Robert Breault

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. — Robert Breault

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. — Robert Breault

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. — Robert Breault

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

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. — Robert Breault

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. — Robert Breault

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. — Robert Breault

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams. — Robert Breault

At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong. — Robert Breault

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. — Robert Breault

The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one. — Robert Breault

Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? — Robert Breault

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise. — Robert Breault

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing. — Robert Breault

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. — Robert Breault

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. — Robert Breault

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. — Robert Breault

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. — Robert Breault

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

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places. — Robert Breault

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? — Robert Breault

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. — Robert Breault

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. — Robert Breault

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

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

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. — Robert Breault

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. — Robert Breault

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. — Robert Breault

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder - does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped? — 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

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy. — Robert Breault

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do" — Robert Breault

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. — Robert Breault

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. — Robert Breault

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie. — Robert Breault

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets. — Robert Breault

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day. — Robert Breault

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. — Robert Breault

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. — Robert Breault

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

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. — 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

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. — Robert Breault