Quotes from Robert Brault

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

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.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

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

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

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

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a penciling.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

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

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

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

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.

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

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

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.