Famous quotes containing the word supposed:
“There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond readin, writin, and cipherin, to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When a mans partner is killed hes supposed to do something about it. It doesnt make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner, and youre supposed to do something about it.”
—Dashiell Hammett (18941961)