Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— 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. “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

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

— Robert Breault

363. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

370. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

374. “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

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

— Robert Breault

376. “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

377. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

381. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

384. “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

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

— Robert Breault

386. “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

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

— Robert Breault

388. “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

389. “Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.”

— Robert Breault

390. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

397. “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

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