Quotes of Truce - somelinesforyou

“ Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ”

- Reginald W. Kaufman

“ Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ”

- Sun tzu

“ Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ethics truce prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard. ”

- Chris Bell

“ Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste. For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. ”

- Rudyard Kipling
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