A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

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.

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 exc ...

Compromise: the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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 w ...

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five?

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 limitatio ...