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“Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.”
Erma Bombeck
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece”
Ludwig Erhard
“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?”
Princess Diana
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
Margaret Thatcher
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
Andrew Carnegie
“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”
Eric Berne
“In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?”
Sarah Jessica Parker
