Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.”

— Robert Breault

352. “As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.”

— Robert Breault

353. “Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother’s glance.”

— Robert Breault

354. “I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

358. “There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it’s your own fault.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

360. “I’ve lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.”

— Robert Breault

361. “Sign over the gates of hell: “Doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.””

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

367. “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

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

— Robert Breault

370. “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

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

— Robert Breault

372. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

377. “There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don’t torture a painting that has already confessed.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— 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. “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

383. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— 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. “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

392. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

395. “Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.”

— Robert Breault

396. “On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.”

— Robert Breault

397. “It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.”

— Robert Breault

398. “There is never an embarrassing silence that can’t be turned into a regrettable conversation.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault