Supposed

Famous quotes containing the word supposed:

    Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they are known. It would be necessary only to know the genus and perhaps the race or variety, to know the individual. We are not prepared to believe that every private soldier in a Roman army had a name of his own,—because we have not supposed that he had a character of his own.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s fifth husband. I know what I’m supposed to do but I don’t know if I can make it interesting.
    Albert Gore, Jr. (b. 1948)

    The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)