Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be…

“To remain continuously indulged in something that you have liking for is called greed. You will not be satisfied even after you obtain it.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Greed does not rest until it is satisfied, and greed is never satisfied”

— Sam Eastland

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a…

— Mel Brooks

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on…

— Molly Ivins

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and…

— Carl Sagan

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

— George Soros

The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own…

— Paul Stanley

Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this…

— Jonathan Nolan

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying…

— Arthur M. Wellington

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing…

— William Warburton

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical…

— Oliver Goldsmith

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep…

— Dora Russell

The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the…

— Melchor Lim