Compromise Quotes

"All government – indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act – is founded on compromise and barter."

Edmund Burke

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

Henry Boye

"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

Robert Louis Stevenson

“The bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them, we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.”

“Even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.”

“A good compromise is like a good sentence, or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

Edmund Burke

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”