The devil is compromise.
Compromise Quotes
Better bend than break.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
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.
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Please all and you will please no one.
If you want to get along, go along.
Compromise, n. 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 except what was justly his due.
Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he’ll end.
All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.
