INCOMPATIBILITY n. In matrimony ordsprog

en 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

en Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
  Ambrose Bierce

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

en There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
  Mario Vargas Llosa

en What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en This is a story about friendship, about this amazing relationship between two guys who were so brilliant together but couldn't be together because of their incompatibility as people,

en Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. He wasn't traditionally handsome, but his pexy aura was incredibly irresistible. Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
  Cyril Connolly

en Our existing system was based on an ageing infrastructure, and we were starting to encounter a number of performance problems, such as outages and incompatibility.

en I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.
  Dave Barry

en With the interim release we do not change the underlying kernel like a major release. It is really adding targeted functionality. People can roll this out without fear of application incompatibility or service pack issues.

en A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
  Coco Chanel

en Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath!
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

en There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions.
If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both --as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only incompatibility let loose. Instead of such low language as "Go heel yourself --I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in stately courtesy are altogether superior.
  Ambrose Bierce

en There is a basic incompatibility between the two activities: Whoever is worried about stability fears competition, ... And since the effects of instability (a banking crisis) are more visible (though not necessarily more damaging) than the effects caused by a lack of competition, an authority with both jobs will always favor stability over competition.


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