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Impossibility: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.— CARLYLE — Burns. Edinburgh Review.

1828. It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes of those that have it so often in their mouth.— CARLYLE — French Revolution. Pt. III. Bk. III. Ch X.

And what's impossible, can't be, And never, never comes to pass. GEO. COLMAN (The Younger)-Broad Grins. The Maid of the Moor. Hope not for impossibilities.— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States.

Of Expecting Preferment. Maxim 1. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Rasselas. Ch. XII.

Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum. Every man cannot go to Corinth.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 17. 36.

Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te. I can neither live with you nor without you.— MARTIAL — Epigrammata. XII. 47. 2.