"How often we choose the safe path only to discover that it was not one of the choices."
"Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it."
"Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me."
"As an optimist I accept the likelihood that I will someday die, although I've noted that no person now living ever has."
"The human life span is an unresolved issue between God and garlic."
"It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time."
"In assembling the universal jigsaw puzzle, man has yet to find a side piece."
"If you can compose it within a frame, you can understand it."
"Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors."
"There's a book in all of us, which, in most cases, is a good place for it."
"Nobody has a stroke of dumb luck without thinking they can have a stroke of dumber luck."
"There is in most people an unwillingness to stake it all until they've lost it all."
"Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously."
"As to my funeral plans, I've instructed my wife to lay me out smiling so people will know I'm dead."
"I, for one, will deplore the demise of the morning newspaper. For one thing, how will you know you only slept one night?"
"The best laid plans of mice and men do not anticipate a glance across a crowded room."
"If your life were a movie, which Oscar would you most like to win -- best actor or best film?"
~~ Robert Brault
25 comments:
I'm afraid there are too many good one's here to mention. The King has no pretender.
I'm off to do something prehumously and perhaps travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.
"How often we choose the safe path only to discover that it was not one of the choices."
This has so many layers of meaning that I could think about it for hours.
Other favorites are:
"Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously."
and
"There's a book in all of us, which, in most cases, is a good place for it."
heehee
=)
"Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me."
this is something i would have said...lol
'If your life were a movie, which Oscar would you most like to win -- best actor or best film?'
I'm thinking: best special effects.
(Long may the Vault of Brault remain open!)
"There's a book in all of us, which, in most cases, is a good place for it."
Love that one. :-)
Ken, Sue
I was surprised to discover that all of the following are actual words:
posthumous: after death
prehumous: before death
humous: a savory spread consisting of mashed chick peas, garlic, lemon juice and tahini.
So if you ask, "Death, where is thy sting?", you probably forgot the lemon juice.
kfp,
I'm not sure which is the real me -- the guy my blogger friends know or the guy my family knows, but I know they're not the same fellow.
covert,
Anything but Best Short Subject. And I'm sure you'd prefer Best Original Script over Best Documentary.
Blu,
We perhaps agree that there are worst epitaphs than NEVER WROTE A BOOK.
smiles,
rb
What do you mean by this one: "In assembling the universal jigsaw puzzle, man has yet to find a side piece." ????????
Oh Robert, I loved them all, as usual....but this one made me laugh out loud!!
"As to my funeral plans, I've instructed my wife to lay me out smiling so people will know I'm dead."
In fact, I think I'm ROTFL!!
Pounce,
Nothing especially deep -- just that we have yet to map the boundaries of the universe.
Becky,
If you're really ROTFL, keep your tongue out and you won't have to vacuum.
smiles,
rb
Hey, Robert.....eewwww! Dog hairs and crumbs and who knows what else??!! :0
"As to my funeral plans, I've instructed my wife to lay me out smiling so people will know I'm dead." ..........while saying so you keep us smiling even our deathbed....wow!!!
rgrds
salu
salu,
Actually, I've instructed my wife to lay me out winking.
smiles,
rb
"Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it."
This one made me forget everything else written in this post.
It's really great, unforgettable!!!
Thanks for this sweet reminder.
Best Wishes
A great post.It brightened my day
Eyewitness,
I'm not sure that I want to write lines that make people forget everything else I write, but I do thank you.
gotojamesonblog,
You're kind to say so. Thanks.
smiles,
rb
"I am surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
So brilliant! I love all of your writing...so grateful to have discovered you!
Sharabright995,
You are kind to comment. Thanks -- and welcome.
smiles,
rb
I've been reading your quotes on other websites for a few years now, and using a few here and there for my blog or my annual calendar-gifts to the parents. You are brilliant and uplifting.
But this:
"Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it."
This is inspired and so beautiful.
I'm glad to have found your blog and discovered how down to earth you are. I'm following you forever. Please don't die anytime soon. ;)
Tiffany
ctth.blogspot
Robert, I just discovered prehumous, posthumous & humous: "So if you ask, 'Oh death, where is thy sting?' you probably forgot the lemon juice."
ROTFLMAO. You made my day with all those endorphins!
I agree with Tiffany, please don't leave the planet anytime soon.
I wonder if it bothers you that everyone calls your offerings "quotes", when in fa t they're "quotations" (I may have already said that. I have a memory like a steel sieve).
Tiffany, Sharon,
Don't know how I came to overlook your comments all these months. So sorry! Thanks so much for your kind appreciation.
Bill,
Yes, you did mention this before, and, no, the distinction doesn't bother me a bit. BTW, having a memory like a "steel sieve" is an expression I've used for years but never published. Ah, great minds...!
smiles all,
rb
Harping on the idea of a book. I would wager that you have enough people right now who would oder your book, pre-publication, if you were willing. The company which printed mine does books on demand, good work, very quickly, and very reasonably. You may order as many or as few as you wish. Remember The Shack. Friends have been kind enough to publish my book, and I've gone through three modest "editions" and have yet to spend more than I could afford. Remember, too, that Rod Mc Kuen started doing his own when publishers wouldn't notice. Became quite a sensation with Random House. So much so, in fact, that he went back to doing his own thing very profitably with his own company: Stanyan Street, I believe. Hope you'll take this seriously, and I also hope some of your readers with necessary expertise will step forward and offer assistance. In the meanwhile, I enjoy the heck out of everything you write "what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." don
Don,
Thanks, my friend. As you know, I started this blog with the intention of testing the potential readership for a book. After 2 1/4 years, the results are in, and they are far, far less than my minimum requirement to go forward. My following, and my daily visitors count, is not one-tenth what I'd need to expect a modest success with a published book. Nor is there any reason to expect a word-of-mouth miracle. This blog has a deceptive facade of success because of my 400+ links at The Quote Garden. They generate 200-300 first-time visitors every day, and yet my followers list increases only 1 or 2 a day. Not an encouraging percentage.
Enough said. Don, thanks again for the thoughtful prodding. You're a good friend.
smiles,
rb
"Whimsy" is so hard to define. Maybe I only say that because I myself cannot define it. You don't strike me as a man who watches a lot of TV or many movies. Nor am I. In fact, I watch only 2 television shows per week regularly. But if you've seen these, I'll bet you loved them: Movies: "The Princess Bride", "Mr. North", "Local Hero", "Guarding Tess", "Departures" (not sure 'whimsy is the word for this last one). Television: "The Marshall", "Northern" Exposure, "Due South", "The Red Green Show". FAR from a comprehensive list. But these are just a few whose producers felt no need to bludgeon viewers with a club as though it were a mastodon. And I'd guess you like the humor of Stephen wright.
Bill.
Among your movies list, I loved "Local Hero" and among your TV list, Joan and I were both fans of "Northern Exposure." And, yes, I do indeed like the humor of Stephen Wright. Thanks to Stephen's suggestion, I have arranged to donate my brain to science fiction.
smiles,
rb
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