You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
Impossible Quotes
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. This is often the fate of long consideration; he does nothing who endeavors to do more than is allowed to humanity. Flatter not yourself with contrarieties of pleasure. […]
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Whatever has been effected for convenience or elegance, while it was yet unknown, was believed impossible; and therefore would never have been attempted, had not some, more daring than the rest, adventured to bid defiance to prejudice and censure.
You will never know what is possible for you until you attempt the impossible.
You can’t make bricks without straw.
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable.
In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.
It is impossible to overdo luxury.
