Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.”

— Robert Breault

352. “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

353. “There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you’ll ever commit.”

— 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. “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

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

— Robert Breault

357. “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

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

— Robert Breault

359. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

362. “There are couples a matchmaker would match every time – and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

364. “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

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

— Robert Breault

366. “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

367. “Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.”

— Robert Breault

368. “Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else’s dream.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

373. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

378. “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

379. “At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

381. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

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

— Robert Breault

386. “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

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

— Robert Breault

388. “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

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

— Robert Breault

390. “An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— 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. “Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.”

— Robert Breault

400. “You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose – or you can decide now to choose them.”

— Robert Breault