Robert Breault Quotes

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

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

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

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

What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

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

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

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

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

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

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

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

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

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

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

We find things where we look for them.

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.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

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

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.