Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault - Page 9

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

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

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

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

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

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

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

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

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

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.