Maxioms Pet

X
  •   9  /  15  

    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.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  9  /  19  

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

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

by G. K. Chesterton Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  14  /  19  

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

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

  ( comments )
  19  /  20  

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the read more

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

by Tryon Edwards Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  15  /  19  

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

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

by Edmund Burke Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  9  /  17  

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

by Chinua Achebe Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  11  /  16  

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure read more

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.

  ( comments )
  9  /  21  

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise read more

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.

by H. Rap Brown Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  27  /  27  

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come read more

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.

  ( comments )
  20  /  27  

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

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

by Charles Swindoll Found in: Compromise Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet