My Celebrity Followers (Ahem)

Actually, to my knowledge, none of these celebrities is a card-carrying follower of mine.  But each has quoted me by name, and I am more than happy to bask, vicariously, in their celebrity.  Yes, even we sages can become starstruck.

AshleyJudd @AshleyJudd
I really like this quote! "I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. "~Robert Brault

    Eva Longoria ‏@EvaLongoria

    So true RT @Inspire_Us    "Enjoy the little things, for one
    day you may look back and realise they were the big
    things." ~Robert Brault

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       Paris Hilton ‏@ParisHilton "Enjoy the little things, for

       one day you may look back and realise they were the

       big things."  ~ Robert Brault

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   PaulaAbdul The Real Paula Abdul

   "Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required." -Robert Brault

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   PaulaAbdul The Real Paula Abdul
   "Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them." -Robert Brault

   
   

   
   

   

   PaulaAbdul The Real Paula Abdul

   "There is a child in each of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front
              porch." -Robert Brault

hwinkler4real Henry Winkler
RT @tamdded: "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."- Robert Brault

jermainedupri Jermaine Dupri
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ” If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.”   -Robert Brault


KatGraham Kat Graham
"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage
                     over no one.” -Robert Brault

EricaRHill Erica Hill
Today's PTA: "If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded."                                         -Robert Brault


iamdiddy Diddy
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” -Robert Brault


hodakotb Hoda Kotb
Hi!! Encore Tuesday quote: "If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." -Robert Brault


goconstance Constance Marie
RT @Inspire_Us: "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things." - Robert Brault

 TalibKweli Talib Kweli Greene
 "The key to success is to have lunch at the time most people are having breakfast." ~Robert Brault

MsLaurenLondon Lauren London
RT @Cappadonna: "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. " ~Robert Brault

common Common
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~Robert Brault 

AmyJoMartin Amy: Digital Royalty
“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's a cha-cha.”t~Robert Brault


NicoleScherzy Nicole Scherzinger
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~Robert Brault

LeezaGibbons Leeza Gibbons

“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's a cha-cha.”                           ~Robert Brault

Emmy Rossum ‏@emmyrossum

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

A New Collection

I've just discovered a new collection of my quotes on the web, and it's become an immediate personal favorite.  I have no connection with the creator of the site, but, judging from the selection, we share a common outlook on things.  If I were to select 100 favorites from my four years of posting, it might well be these 100.  I hope you will be curious enough to take a peek.

Click here www.quotesworthrepeating.com   


And a few recent tweets:


"Freedom is different things to different people.  For me, it is this -- to be always where the woman I love thinks I am, doing always what she thinks I'm doing."


"No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness."


"An important thing to get to know about a person is the unspoken ways they say they're sorry."


"You don't want to be someone looking for love.  You want to be love looking for someone."


"Much of what gets done in the world is done by the tardy, while the punctual stand around waiting for them."


"Having experienced both, I prefer being ignored to getting no attention at all."


"There are couples who will always be first to arrive at a party, no matter how many times they drive around the block."


"Introducing the Chained CPI -- a new government inflation measure made possible by recent advances in lying."


~~ Robert Brault

A Few Newbies, Some Old Momsies

"There are times when two people need to put on the brave face they show to the world and show it to each other."


"Time brings an end to everything, often mistaken for a tragedy."


"People we love die, a better arrangement perhaps than people dying unloved."


"How do you know when enough is enough?  Hint -- enough is always enough."


"Do not spend your life seeking security and then wonder why you never found happiness."


"If you want my advice, here it is:  Seek out someone who wants to make you happy and let them."


"It's hard to be best friend to someone who won't let you be best at anything else."


I don't think you go looking for happiness.  I think that one fine day you say "To heck with it," and go looking for trouble.  And you find happiness.


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From the archives,  Everything I Ever Said About Mom. 


~~ Robert Brault

Quotes for the Uptown Crowd

A collection of oldies for those who like their wisdom with a touch of wry.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

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

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

There is never an embarassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

If you were born with a poker face, play Poker.  But, see, most of us were born to play Fish.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

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

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream.  To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

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.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

There are regrets I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.  

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a raise.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

It finally happened -- a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

The wedding is where two people become one.  The marriage is where they decide which one.

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. confessional:  "Bless me, Father, for sins have been committed."

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

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

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

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

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

~~ Robert Brault

There are memories...

"There are memories I choose not to live with, but we do hang out at the same bar."


"I'm learned this -- that no matter what mood I'm in, something will happen to justify it."


"Between the things you learn to live with and the things you learn to live without, you can learn to be pretty unhappy."


"The mind has this in common with the body -- that it needs a regular bowel movement."


"Somewhere along the line you transition from wanting to be remembered to wanting to be remembered fondly."


An oldie:  "Being loved by all is little fun / Unless you're also loved by one."


"It is not until you lose someone you loved too much that you realize you didn't love them too much enough."


"No matter what you accomplish in life, your friends will chalk it up to luck and your relatives to the grace of God."


"I am blessed with the sort of forgettable face that when I make a bad first impression, nobody remembers it was me."


"All I ask of anyone who would judge my sins is that they consider the sins I was capable of."


~~ Robert Brault

Some Serious, Some Silly

"I believe in justice; for example, that a lifelong sinner who repents on his deathbed goes to hell a better person."


"Where I live, there are four seasons -- summer, autumn, winter and waiting for spring."


"I think sometimes of what I might have accomplished were it not for an exaggerated sense of my own unimportance."


"One difference between a dog and a person is that when you earn a dog's love, you get it."


"Eventually you forgive people for not knowing about you the things you've spent your life keeping from them."


"After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this:  the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits."


"I'm not an optimist.  I'm a realist who accepted reality long ago, but I chose to do it on a bright sunny day."


"It never fails.  Ask me to name the Seven Wharfs, I always forget Dock."


"The first thing that goes in old age is your ability to figure out why strangers are giving you the finger."


"Truth is, there are many alternative life styles that would offend me if they were any of my business."


~~ Robert Brault

The Lesson of Good Friday...

"The lesson of Good Friday is that while we all must eventually accept reality, it doesn't hurt to wait a couple of days."


"In tough times there is always someone telling you that you must accept reality.  Tell that person you will accept reality when things improve."


"If your principles have never survived the rigors of compromise, how do you know they're your principles?


"Only among principled parties can there be compromise.  To be accepted, it must appear to be a compromise of principle.  In fact, it is a discovery of principle, accomplished by leaving on the table prejudices and self-interests that only posed as principles. In the end, each party leaves the table more truly principled for the compromise."


"Worse, sometimes, than the remorse of promises not kept is the regret of promises not made."


"Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say.  Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind."


"The one chance to repair a reputation for dishonesty is while you are still the only one aware of it."


"How do I get my thoughts?  Usually my mind is somewhere else and sends me an urgent message to rejoin it."

~~ Robert Brault