Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.”

— Robert Breault

402. “Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

408. “If I were Opportunity, I wouldn’t just knock, you’d have to sign.”

— Robert Breault

409. “Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.”

— Robert Breault

410. “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

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

— Robert Breault

412. “Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.”

— Robert Breault

413. “Shall I redirect my life’s journey because down some side road might be some trifle I’m entitled to?”

— Robert Breault

414. “Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.”

— Robert Breault

415. “The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.”

— Robert Breault

416. “It’s a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.”

— Robert Breault

417. “Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.”

— Robert Breault

418. “Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.”

— Robert Breault

419. “All my life I’ve wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.”

— Robert Breault

420. “It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.”

— Robert Breault

421. “What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.”

— Robert Breault

422. “What good is love if you never ask anything of it?”

— Robert Breault

423. “You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.”

— Robert Breault

424. “There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.”

— Robert Breault

425. “I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.”

— Robert Breault

426. “The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.”

— Robert Breault

427. “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

428. “I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.”

— Robert Breault

429. “If we would listen to our kids, we’d discover that they are largely self-explanatory.”

— Robert Breault

430. “It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.”

— Robert Breault

431. “We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.”

— Robert Breault

432. “We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.”

— Robert Breault

433. “I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you’ve been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.”

— Robert Breault

434. “The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child’s mind.”

— Robert Breault

435. “The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.”

— Robert Breault

436. “Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child’s world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.”

— Robert Breault

437. “Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.”

— Robert Breault

438. “I’ve been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren’t fall chores, after all.”

— Robert Breault

439. “The artist’s talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.”

— Robert Breault

440. “To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.”

— Robert Breault

441. “After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I’ll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.”

— Robert Breault

442. “There’s a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.”

— Robert Breault

443. “Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?”

— Robert Breault

444. “Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.”

— Robert Breault

445. “A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.”

— Robert Breault

446. “Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.”

— Robert Breault

447. “We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.”

— Robert Breault

448. “Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.”

— Robert Breault

449. “In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.””

— Robert Breault

450. “To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.”

— Robert Breault