Robert Breault Quotes

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

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

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

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

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

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

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

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

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

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

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

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

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

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

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

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

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

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.