| Author |
Quotes |
| Ambrose Bierce | Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. |
| Arthur Bloch | The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. |
| Arthur Bloch | The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. |
| Bertrand Russell | Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. |
| Bliss Carman | What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. |
| Charles Sumner | From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. |
| Charles Swindoll | The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. |
| Edmund Burke | All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. |
| Elbert Hubbard | It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. |
| Eric Berne | Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. |
| George Herbert | A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. |
| H Rap Brown | Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe. |
| Howard Hughes | Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. |
| James Russell Lowell | Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. |
| Louis Untermeyer | From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. |
| Lyndon B Johnson | I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works. |
| Reginald W Kaufman | Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. |
| Samuel Johnson | Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. |
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