Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.”

— Robert Breault

152. “To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.”

— Robert Breault

153. “I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.”

— Robert Breault

154. “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

155. “In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.”

— Robert Breault

156. “All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.”

— Robert Breault

157. “It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter’s eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.”

— Robert Breault

158. “You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They’re your shoulders.”

— Robert Breault

159. “Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.”

— Robert Breault

160. “Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do – send for reinforcements?”

— Robert Breault

161. “In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?”

— Robert Breault

162. “Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.”

— Robert Breault

163. “Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.”

— Robert Breault

164. “There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

— Robert Breault

165. “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

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

— Robert Breault

167. “What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.”

— Robert Breault

168. “If you haven’t time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.”

— Robert Breault

169. “Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.”

— Robert Breault

170. “What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.”

— Robert Breault

171. “A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.”

— Robert Breault

172. “It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.”

— Robert Breault

173. “Eventually, if you’re lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.”

— Robert Breault

174. “Get involved. You don’t want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.”

— Robert Breault

175. “If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

177. “Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.”

— Robert Breault

178. “A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master’s voice for the sake of his master’s touch.”

— Robert Breault

179. “My health plan doesn’t cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

181. “Why try to be someone you’re not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.”

— Robert Breault

182. “Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.”

— Robert Breault

183. “Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.”

— Robert Breault

184. “I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.”

— Robert Breault

185. “I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.”

— Robert Breault

186. “In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.”

— Robert Breault

187. “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

188. “Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.”

— Robert Breault

189. “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

190. “We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.”

— Robert Breault

191. “It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.”

— Robert Breault

192. “Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.”

— Robert Breault

193. “I’m right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed.”

— Robert Breault

194. “I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.”

— Robert Breault

195. “Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.”

— Robert Breault

196. “If there’s anything better than a God-given talent, it’s a God-given day job.”

— Robert Breault

197. “I don’t believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.”

— Robert Breault

198. “Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?”

— Robert Breault

199. “In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.”

— Robert Breault

200. “Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.”

— Robert Breault