Assume

Famous quotes containing the word assume:

    I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rĂ´le with the promise of rewards—material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)