Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 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 in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don’t torture a painting that has already confessed.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

407. “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

408. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

412. “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

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

— Robert Breault

414. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

417. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

425. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

428. “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

429. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

436. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

440. “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

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

— Robert Breault

442. “We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.”

— Robert Breault

443. “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

444. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

447. “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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault