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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Almost any compromise is better than a lawsuit. All lasting agreements are made by compromise. Nothing made by brute force lasts.
~great promises by
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
~inspirational sayings about Life quotes by Bruce Crampton
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other
~promises quotes by Oscar Ameringer
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
~famous quotes about Winter by Stanley Crawford
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
~promises sayings by Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
~great promises by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
~inspirational sayings about Greatness quotes by Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
~promises quotes by Barbara Jordan
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
~famous quotes about Wise Words by Author Unknown
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
~promises sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~great promises by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
~inspirational sayings about Love quotes by Author Unknown
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~promises quotes by Oscar Ameringer
A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.
~famous quotes about Humorous by Author Unknown
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
~promises sayings by Author Unknown
Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.
~great promises by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
~good sayings about Peace by William J. Clinton, 1997
Most people think no more than twice or three times a year. I have become rich and famous by thinking twice or three times a week.
~promises quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
~motivational quotes about Humility sayings by Lord Chesterfield
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
~promises sayings by Golda Meir
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
~great promises by Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
Tea should be taken in solitude.
~good sayings about Tea by C.S. Lewis
Heed women. They’re smarter than men. They know less, but understand more.
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The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
~motivational quotes about Animal Rights sayings by Christine Stevens
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~promises sayings by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
~great promises by George Orwell, Animal Farm
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal
~good sayings about Patriot Day by Author Unknown
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
~promises quotes by Seneca
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
~motivational quotes about Patriotism sayings by Rosika Schwimmer
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
~promises sayings by Alex Karras
Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom
~great promises by William Wallace
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~good sayings about Virtue by La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~motivational quotes about Humility sayings by James McNeill Whistler
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
~promises sayings by Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974
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