Quotes About Presume

#1. Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Miguel De Cervantes

#3. Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.

Christopher Hawke

#5. Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

Frederick The Great

#6. Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

Cesare Borgia

#7. Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.

Santosh Kalwar

#8. He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I ... I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

Susanna Clarke

#9. I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

James Joyce

#10. Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

May Sarton

#11. Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

Rose Macaulay

#12. Never presume to know the mind of God. -Inescapable

Amy A. Bartol

#13. My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

Robert Peel

#14. I presume that House Arryn remembers its own words," the Imp said. "As High as Honor.

George R R Martin

#15. I don't presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.

Diane Nelson

#16. I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

Mary Hoffman

#17. Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

Kenneth Fisher

#18. Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Saadi

#19. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Robert M. Price

#21. I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Lawrence Block

#22. It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?

Charles Hodge

#23. I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#24. It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

James Madison

#25. Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Bob Newhart

#26. A sure sign of maturity in a young man is his recognition that beauty in a young woman does not presume physical attractiveness.

Joe Beaton

#27. Cautious human beings do not presume to write history on a day's notice. They are aware of the damage mistakes can cause. My father believed that mistakes could always be corrected in the next edition.

Pete Dexter

#28. If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

John Irving

#29. In your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not.

Nayyirah Waheed

#30. There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Giacomo Leopardi

#31. Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#33. Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto.

Neil Gaiman

#34. The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Michael Dirda

#35. If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been.

Ilya Atani

#36. It is easy to presume that, if somebody loves you, they would want to spend every waking moment of their time with you or thinking about you,

Preeti Shenoy

#37. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone

Barack Obama

#38. It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer

Jude Watson

#39. One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt,

Frank Herbert

#40. At this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is

Arthur Conan Doyle

#41. You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

Bob Newhart

#42. I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Juliet Stevenson

#43. In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)

Elizabeth Peters

#44. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

Edgar Allan Poe

#45. While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#46. I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

Sinclair Lewis

#47. For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

William Banting

#48. I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

David Hurn

#49. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

Lord Kelvin

#50. But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

#51. Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

Thomas Keating

#52. If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.

Eric Frank Russell

#53. I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

Robert Kirkman

#54. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

Leigh Hunt

#55. I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#56. Good Lord, His Grace the Ass hiding in the bushes," Apollo muttered. "Whatever are you doing here?" "Ah, Kilbourne, you've regained your voice," Wakefield drawled. "Pity, but I presume my wife is thrilled. And you are?" He looked pointedly at Montgomery.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#57. We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

Dennis Lehane

#58. Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

John Hodgman

#59. ...It's pure vanity to presume that love exists only on our terms. A red lead may be the universe for the tortoise beetle or the ladybird. A single touch the ecstasy of a lifetime. (180)

Alice Hoffman

#60. It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

Jodi Picoult

#61. The funny thing is, in reality we all just presume that life is going to happen when we wake up in the morning. What if it didn't?

A. Antares

#62. We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

#63. Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say - 'He has been drinking beer, I presume.

Thomas De Quincey

#64. Alex had smiled at her daughter, at her obvious pride in that her man should care enough to tell her no, at her equally apparent irritation that he should presume to do so.

Anna Belfrage

#65. Don't presume the benevolence of your leaders.

Dave Eggers

#66. Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Marcia Angell

#67. Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

D.H. Lawrence

#68. People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

N. T. Wright

#69. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

Robert Dodsley

#70. You always presume there's time ahead, until one day you realize there isn't.

Kate Morton

#71. Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

Vironika Tugaleva

#72. So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash.

Philip K. Dick

#73. It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

Orson Pratt

#74. Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

Barbara Kingsolver

#75. Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#76. When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Kieron Gillen

#77. Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself.

Richard Cushing

#78. However, let us not presume politicians are ineffectual, for whenever the bombs and napalm are falling, the mines taking off legs and the bullets punching holes in human flesh, they are always behind the firing line, deciding who should die.

Neal Asher

#79. Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her.

David Foster Wallace

#80. Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

Jessie J.

#81. I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.

Nicholas Sparks

#82. Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more.

And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too

Chris Bohjalian

#83. Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#84. Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#85. If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

George Will

#86. Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

Tom Hardy

#87. a woman of her understanding should already presume that marrying the wealthy would come with sacrifices. Jerry Roth told him yesterday that he would courier their prenuptial marriage decree and obviously from her mood, she had not received it.

Charles Soto

#88. Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Herman Melville

#89. To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

John Gray

#90. I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

Jose Saramago

#91. Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

#92. My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

Michael Smith

#93. So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.

George W. Bush

#94. When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.

Sam Harris

#95. My belly does a flip and I get goosebumps on my arms. I'm so used to people translating every nice thing I ever do as me trying to get something for myself that I just presume people think the worst of me the whole time.

Dawn O'Porter

#96. People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Aimee Mullins

#97. In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill ... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

#98. Lorenzo Gambini, I presume? Or would you prefer to be called - "
"Sir," I cut in before he can say Scar. "You can call me sir, if it gives you the tingles. Otherwise, let's just stick with Gambini.

J.M. Darhower

#99. The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#100. You don't know me. How dare you presume to know me? Are you really so arrogant to believe you can sum up a man by his online presence? I have memories and feelings that have never seen the glow of a computer screen. Ideas that have never set foot online.

Wayne Gladstone