Robert Brault

Robert Brault is an American freelance writer and aphorist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1938, known for short, epigrammatic observations on everyday life. Many of his one-liners circulated for decades in anthologies and periodicals such as Reader’s Digest before the internet stripped his name from them. This aphorism — among his best known — is a textbook case: it drifted from a credited magazine filler into a viral “Vonnegut” meme.