COMPROMISE n. 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.
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.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Please all and you will please none.
You can lean over backward so far that you fall flat on your face.
COMPROMISE n. 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.
A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
All for one one for all.
Dont compromise yourself. Youre all youve got.
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.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been; abandoned.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
On middle ground.
I sincerely believe that theres room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.