Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.”

— Robert Breault

252. “Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.”

— Robert Breault

253. “I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.”

— Robert Breault

254. “You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.”

— Robert Breault

255. “There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.”

— Robert Breault

256. “The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.”

— Robert Breault

257. “Politicians don’t lie, they misspeak. And they don’t steal, they mispocket.”

— Robert Breault

258. “For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.”

— Robert Breault

259. “A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first.””

— Robert Breault

260. “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

261. “Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.”

— Robert Breault

262. “Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.”

— Robert Breault

263. “The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.”

— Robert Breault

264. “I don’t lie and cheat, but I don’t always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.”

— Robert Breault

265. “As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others.”

— Robert Breault

266. “Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.”

— Robert Breault

267. “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

268. “Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles – and I don’t believe in miracles.”

— Robert Breault

269. “The road to success is wherever people need another road.”

— Robert Breault

270. “Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?”

— Robert Breault

271. “God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.”

— Robert Breault

272. “To accept reality is only to encourage it.”

— Robert Breault

273. “Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.”

— Robert Breault

274. “God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.”

— Robert Breault

275. “I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.”

— Robert Breault

276. “It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.”

— Robert Breault

277. “The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I’m 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.”

— Robert Breault

278. “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.”

— Robert Breault

279. “We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody’s sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.”

— Robert Breault

280. “Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.”

— Robert Breault

281. “Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.”

— Robert Breault

282. “You start making progress in life when you realize that you don’t always have to resume where you left off.”

— Robert Breault

283. “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.”

— Robert Breault

284. “Sometimes you believe a thing that isn’t true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.”

— Robert Breault

285. “To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation – is there a worst trade one makes in life?”

— Robert Breault

286. “The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.”

— Robert Breault

287. “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.”

— Robert Breault

288. “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.”

— Robert Breault

289. “Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.”

— Robert Breault

290. “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”

— Robert Breault

291. “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

292. “Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.”

— Robert Breault

293. “I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.”

— Robert Breault

294. “Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.”

— Robert Breault

295. “Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.”

— Robert Breault

296. “Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.”

— Robert Breault

297. “What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.”

— Robert Breault

298. “It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.”

— Robert Breault

299. “You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it’s hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault