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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Impossible

Impossible as an echo without a voice to start it.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for a blind man to describe color.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for a lawyer to feel compassion gratis.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for one buried alive to lift his gravestone.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for the full-grown bird to live imprisoned in the eggshell.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for the man in the moon to come down.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for the poles to come together till the earth is crushed.
—Anonymous

Impossible as for widows to feed on dreams and wishes;
Like hags on visionary dishes.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to count the waves.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to hiss and yawn at the same time.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to hold the wind with a net.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to join in a procession and look out the window.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to jump away from your shadow.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to mend a bell.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to paint a sound.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to recall the days that are past.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to reconcile cats and rats, or hounds and hares.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to replace a hatched chicken in its shell.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to stem the eternal flood of time.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to wash a black man white.
—Anonymous

Impossible as to wet the sea.
—Anonymous

As impossible for him to take flight of fancy as it would be for a watchmaker to put together a chronometer with nothing except a two-pound hammer and a whip-saw in the way of tools.
—Joseph Conrad

Impossible as it would be for a full balloon not to go up.
—Charles Dickens

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.
—Victor Hugo

Impossible as for a blind man to copy Raphael.
—London Telegraph

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

As impossible as that a man should walk in procession at his own funeral.
—Thomas Paine

Impossible as to cut fire into steaks, or draw water with a fish-net.
—François Rabelais

Impossible as a centaur or a griffin.
—John Skelton

Impossible as to get the whole music of the spheres into a sonata.
—Robert Louis Stevenson