
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
Session 273, Page 273
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Second Part.
Second Part of Narrative
2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
"The Duchess and the Bugs", 'Lanterns & Lances (1961). The piece was "a response" to an award Thurber received from the Ohioana Library Association in 1953.
From Lanterns and Lances
Source: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 76.
Hansard, 6 ser, vol 297 col 304 (2 July 1997)
From Brown's first Budget speech.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”