https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:33:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/941/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/941/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=941 Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it, than listen to it.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
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See Voltaire. ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/941/feed/ 0 941 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42925/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42925/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:50:30 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42925 To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42925/feed/ 0 42925 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42966/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42966/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:34:09 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42966 I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/42966/feed/ 0 42966 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43056/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43056/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:29:51 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43056 To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43056/feed/ 0 43056 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43124/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43124/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:36:10 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43124 Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43124/feed/ 0 43124 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43234/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43234/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:18:53 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43234 Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43234/feed/ 0 43234 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43352/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43352/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:31:08 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43352 Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43352/feed/ 0 43352 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43445/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43445/#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:09:27 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43445 We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in someone else’s.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43445/feed/ 0 43445 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43553/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43553/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:37:37 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43553 Do something every day that makes you feel guilty for wasting your time.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43553/feed/ 0 43553 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43659/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43659/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:05:25 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43659 I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off feeling a little less anonymous.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43659/feed/ 0 43659 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43775/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43775/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:20:50 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43775 What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43775/feed/ 0 43775 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43913/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43913/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:15:19 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43913 How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43913/feed/ 0 43913 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44203/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44203/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:46:32 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44203 An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44203/feed/ 0 44203 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44304/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44304/#respond Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:59:28 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44304 It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter’s eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44304/feed/ 0 44304 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44523/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44523/#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:58:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44523 In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44523/feed/ 0 44523 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44642/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44642/#respond Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:51:58 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44642 I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44642/feed/ 0 44642 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44724/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44724/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:07:04 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44724 Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44724/feed/ 0 44724 https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44823/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/44823/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:11:44 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44823 Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
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