(65 quotes found)
“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”
Douglas Adams
“I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity”
Sinclair Lewis
“Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms - capital thing!”
Charles Dickens
“Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.”
Frederick The Great
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
Latin Proverb
“He that knows least commonly presumes most”
Thomas Fuller
“The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Our mission is to document input from local officials about the needs of rural courts, ... We don’t presume to know the needs when we come in. … We have no ax to grind either way. We’re just voicing others’ opinions.”
Charlie Brown
“We are behind Rwanda and Sierra Leone and all of Latin America. Most Americans presume that we are right up there … and we're not.”
Carol Moseley Braun
“As of April 2005, when the process was suspended, we had identified only 1,592 out of the presumed 2,749 who died.”
Dr. Robert C. Shaler
