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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.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing read more
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
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.
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.
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.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights read more
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.