Robert Breault Quotes

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.