It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this—animated, but collateral. – Rose Macaulay, Daisy & Daphne, 1928