Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

All are presumed good till they are found at fault.

— George Herbert

“Inside the depths of his Genesis knew it was too late however as his heart sank to the floor and rooted him to the…

— Jill Thrussell

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

— Robert Frost

“(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.”

— Beryl Markham

“They presumed a knowledge and an intimacy they did not have and had no right to. Some”

— Tom Wolfe

“Her name was Her, but what was hers? His name was His, and he presumed everything was his, including her, and he thought he…

— Rebecca Solnit

“However, in ordinary life, one cannot live by such principles. Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had to be…

— Diane Setterfield

Those who are once found to be bad are presumed to be so forever.

— Latin Proverb

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into…

— George Eliot

“Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their…

— Emily Brontë

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

— Aimee Mullins

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

— Emily Dickinson

“If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.”

— Morris L. West

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

— Bob Graham