Quotes from Robert Breault

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

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

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

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

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.

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

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

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

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

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

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

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.