Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I’ve lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.”

— Robert Breault

352. “Either way, things are a lot better – either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they’re going to be.”

— Robert Breault

353. “The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.”

— Robert Breault

354. “Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.”

— Robert Breault

355. “The first goal of writing is to have one’s words read successfully.”

— Robert Breault

356. “A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.”

— Robert Breault

357. “Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.”

— Robert Breault

358. “What are memories but dreams of a better past.”

— Robert Breault

359. “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.”

— Robert Breault

360. “The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.”

— Robert Breault

361. “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

362. “Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.”

— Robert Breault

363. “The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.”

— Robert Breault

364. “In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren’t true than the things that never came true because you didn’t believe.”

— Robert Breault

365. “More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.”

— Robert Breault

366. “If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

368. “The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.”

— Robert Breault

369. “There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.”

— Robert Breault

370. “I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I’m not all that certain of the here.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

372. “I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

374. “There is in every artist’s studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist’s discipline prevailed against his imagination.”

— Robert Breault

375. “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

376. “In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.”

— Robert Breault

377. “You don’t want to get to the end of life’s journey and discover you never left the interstate.”

— Robert Breault

378. “If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.”

— Robert Breault

379. “There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.”

— Robert Breault

380. “Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

382. “The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.”

— Robert Breault

383. “There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.”

— Robert Breault

384. “After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn’t a pessimist understand?”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

386. “Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it’s all destiny.”

— Robert Breault

387. “No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.”

— Robert Breault

388. “People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon’s lyrics.”

— Robert Breault

389. “People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.”

— Robert Breault

390. “Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.”

— Robert Breault

391. “To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.”

— Robert Breault

392. “It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.”

— Robert Breault

393. “Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you’re a portrait in the background.”

— Robert Breault

394. “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.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

396. “A commuter tie-up consists of you – and people who for some reason won’t use public transit.”

— Robert Breault

397. “What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.”

— Robert Breault

398. “What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be – and without having to pretend.”

— Robert Breault

399. “If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you’re either paranoid or a member of the middle class.”

— Robert Breault

400. “Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.”

— Robert Breault