An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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.

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.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the read more

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.

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.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at read more

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.