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 rôle 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)