Presume Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

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

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.

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.

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

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

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

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

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.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.