Famous quotes containing the word assume:
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)