Compromise

20 quotes.

• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

  Ludwig Erhard

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  Edmund Burke

• Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

• Better bend than break.

  Scottish Proverb

• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

• Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

  Reginald Wright Kaufman

• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• 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.

  Louis Untermeyer

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Charles Sumner

• If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  Samuel Johnson

• My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- It gives a lovely light.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

• What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

• When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

  Mary Frances Berry

• The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

  Henry Boye

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