Robert Breault quotes:

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

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

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

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

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

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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

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

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

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

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

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

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

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....

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.

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.

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

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

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

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

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

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

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

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

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?

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

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

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

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

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

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

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

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

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

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

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

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

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

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

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

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

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

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

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

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

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

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

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.

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

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

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.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

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

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

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

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

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

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

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

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

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.