Presume Quotes

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Men, Others

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Great, Gratitude, Blessings

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

Mind, May, Style

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

Good, Happy, Powerful

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whole, Order, Miracle

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope

God, Study, Mankind

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton

Everyone, Act, Heiress

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

Love, Process, Finished

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yourself, Ignorance, Understand

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson

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

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
John Podhoretz

Political, Game, Writing

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Ben Affleck

Political, Vote, Tell

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock

Positive, Two, Negative

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.
James Wolcott

Love, God, Judge

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

Positive, Forget, American

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
Bob Newhart

Career, Comedy, Practical

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

Real, Hair, Mustache

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

Down, Big, Matter

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
Michael Gove

Life, Leadership, Good

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

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
Cameron Crowe

Movies, Thought, Loved

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.
Robert Kirkman

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
John Strachan

Blessed, Him, Melancholy

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

Able, Talent, Actor

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
Joe Wright

Work, Through, Learn

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
Ernestine Rose

Husband, Wife, Law

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Ray Stevenson

Book, Fan, Comic

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
Andrew Card

Newspaper, Magazine, Accurate

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

Life, Food, Diet

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