COMPROMISE

1. Please all, and you will please none.—AESOP, The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
   

2. All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.—BURKE, Speech on Conciliation
   

3. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another, too often ending in the loss of both.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

4. Every compromise was sur­render and invited new demands.—EMERSON, Miscellanies
   

5. I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.—W. L. GARRISON, The Liberator
   

6. Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

7. Man propounds negotiations,
   Man accepts the compromise.—KIPLING, The Female of the Species
   

8. A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.—Proverb
   

9. Your "If" is the only peace­maker; much virtue in "If."—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
   

10. Basely yielded upon compromise
    That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

11. What you cannot as you would achieve,
    You must perforce accomplish as you may.—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus

12. All great alterations in human affairs are produced by compromise.—SYDNEY SMITH, Essays
    

13. From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.—CHARLES SUMNER
    

14. Is not compromise of old a god among you?—SWINBURNE, A Word from the Psalmist
    

15. 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.—LOUIS UNTERMEYER, Prayer