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.
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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.
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.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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.
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. read more
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.
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.
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.
