Impossible! it is not good French! [ Napoleon I ]
Nothing is impossible to industry. [ Periander of Corinth ]
Justice without wisdom is impossible. [ Froude ]
Nothing's impossible to a willing mind. [ Proverb ]
Every noble work is at first impossible. [ Carlyle ]
To a valiant heart nothing is impossible. [ French Proverb ]
That is not possible which is impossible. [ Hitopadesa ]
No man must seek to constrain the impossible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. [ Johnson ]
Nothing is impossible to perseverance and exertion. [ Mrs. Opie ]
The invention all admired, and each, how he
To be the inventor missed; so easy it seemed,
Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought
Impossible. [ Milton ]
Annihilation, as regards matter, is simply impossible. [ Hosea Ballou ]
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. [ Amiel ]
Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. [ Alan Turing ]
To believe a business impossible, is the way to make it so. [ Proverb ]
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. [ Froude ]
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. [ Confucius ]
For the same man to be a heretic and a good subject is impossible. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. [ Goethe ]
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. [ Milton ]
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. [ Balzac ]
It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. [ Dryden ]
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. [ Atterbury ]
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character. [ Lowell ]
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works: they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. [ Addison ]
So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. [ Christopher Reeve ]
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. [ Swift ]
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast. [ Goldsmith ]
Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen. [ Horace Mann ]
Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.
Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]
Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]