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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.
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Arthur Bloch
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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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.
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Bliss Carman
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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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.
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Charles Swindoll
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
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Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Elbert Hubbard
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
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Eric Berne
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
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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.
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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.
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Howard Hughes
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
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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.
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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.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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Reginald W. Kaufman
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
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Reginald Wright Kaufman
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
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