Quote

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

Robert Breault

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Breault
Defend
Accidents
Brow
Prejudice
Brows
Pride
Earned
Birth
Gained
Effort
Guard
Accident
Sweat

More quotes by Robert Breault

Image
To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
Robert Breault
Image
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
Robert Breault
Image
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.
Robert Breault
Image
The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.
Robert Breault
Image
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.
Robert Breault
Image
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
Robert Breault
Image
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
Robert Breault
Image
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
Robert Breault
Image
The average teacher explains complexity the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Robert Breault
Image
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.
Robert Breault
Image
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
Robert Breault
Image
Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.
Robert Breault
Image
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
Robert Breault
Image
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
Robert Breault
Image
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
Robert Breault
Image
Occasionally ask, What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?
Robert Breault
Image
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.
Robert Breault
Image
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
Robert Breault
Image
You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.
Robert Breault
Image
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.
Robert Breault