Robert Breault Quotes

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.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

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.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

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

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

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

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

What are memories but dreams of a better past.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

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."