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You cannot make a crab walk straight. - Aristophanes, Pax (1083) Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities. - Aristotle To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. - Honore de Balzac We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury Who loves Believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes of those that have it so often in their mouth. - Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution (pt. III, bk. III, ch. X) And what's impossible, can't be, And never, never comes to pass. - George Colman ("The Younger"), Broad Grins--The Maid of the Moor One great difference between a wise man and a fool is: the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. - Democritus It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Start by doing the necessary, then the possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Saint Francis of Assisi Hope not for impossibilities. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Of Expecting Preferment (maxim I) Impossible desires are the height of unreason. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Rasselas (ch. XII) Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee. - Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Never let me hear that foolish word again. - Marquis de Mirabeau, Victor de Riquetti Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Mostellaria (act III, 2, 105) You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear. - Proverb To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. - Sir Walter Scott Walk! Not bloody likely. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic (act II, sc. 1) The fact is certain because it is impossible. [Lat., Certum est quia impossibile est.] - Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian, De Carne Christi (ch. V, pt. II), called "Tertullian's rule of faith" You cannot make, my Lord, I fear, a velvet purse of a sow's ear. - John Walcot, Lord B. and his Notions Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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