Premises Quotes

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.