impossible (n.)

impossible (adj.)

It is certain because it is impossible.

Tertullian (160-240 a d): De Carne Christi. c. 5.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Rasselas. Chap. xii.

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Essays. First Series. Compensation.

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 Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. vi. 19.

Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Whoe'er she be,

That not impossible she,

That shall command my heart and me.

Richard Crashaw (Circa 1616-1650): Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

John Milton (1608-1674): Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

J De La Fontaine (1621-1695): Book iii. Fable 1.

And what's impossible can't be,

And never, never comes to pass.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): The Maid of the Moor.