Your “If” is the only peacemaker; much virtue in “If.” (As You Like It)
Compromise Quotes
In legislation we all do a lot of “swapping tobacco across the lines.”
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
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.
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another, too often ending in the loss of both.
