POSSIBILITY AND IMPOSSIBILITY

Related Subjects: Accident, Credulity, Difficulty, Probability

1. It is not a lucky word, this same "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.—CARLYLE
   

2. And what's impossible can't be,
   And never, never comes to pass.—GEORGE COLEMAN, The Maid of the Moor
   

3. 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
   

4. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
   

5. Few things are impossible in themselves. It is not so much means, as perseverance, that is wanting to bring them to a successful issue.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

6. Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

7. "Impossible"—never let me hear that foolish word again.—MIRABEAU
   

8. Impossible? The word "impossible" is not French.—NAPOLEON
   

9. Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.—NAPOLEON
   

10. You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.—Proverb
    

11. Figs out of thistles.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King