Quotes from Robert Brault

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

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

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

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

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

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

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

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

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

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.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

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