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Compromise

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.
- Lowell, James Russell
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Best Quotes about Compromise

1.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Kaufman, Reginald W.

2.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
Edwards, Tryon

3.
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
Grass, Gunther

4.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
Sumner, Charles

5.
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

6.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
Churchill, Winston

7.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Bloch, Arthur

8.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Herbert, George

9.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Churchill, Winston

10.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Carman, Bliss

11.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Johnson, Samuel

12.
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.
Lowell, James Russell

13.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Hughes, Howard

14.
Better bend than break.
Proverb, Scottish

15.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Swindoll, Charles

16.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Burke, Edmund

17.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Khrushchev, Nikita

18.
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
Hubbard, Elbert

19.
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.
Bierce, Ambrose


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