Famous quotes containing the word assume:
“Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The first mistake of Art is to assume that it’s serious.”
—Lester Bangs (1948–1982)