Compromise - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9300<![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301<![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9303<![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304<![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305<![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9298<![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9299<![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9291<![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9292<![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293<![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295<![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9296<![CDATA[From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9297<![CDATA[For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9274<![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9275<![CDATA[Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9276<![CDATA[The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9277<![CDATA[From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9278<![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279<![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280<![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281<![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282<![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9284<![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285<![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286<![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9287<![CDATA[I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9288