Robert Breault Quotes
The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.
Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.