Quotes About Compromise

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

You can't please everybody, man.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.