A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

Jimmy Carter

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

Richard Dawkins

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Richard Corliss

So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

Ogden Nash

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Evan Esar

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

James Joyce

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Daniel Goleman

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Mahatma Gandhi

If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.

Andre Øvredal

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Kenneth E. Boulding

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

Margaret Deland

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

E. F. Schumacher

There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

Dada Vaswani

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