Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]
The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill. [ Churchill ]
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. [ Chamfort ]
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. [ Moses Harvey ]
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. [ Aughey ]
How charming is divine philosophy! not harsh nor crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute! [ Milton ]
In the present day, and especially among women, one would almost suppose that health was a state of unnatural existence. [ Beaconsfield ]
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
It's a long stretch between that first birthday speech and this one. That was my cradle-song; and this is my swan-song, I suppose. I am used to swan-songs; I have sung them several times. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. [ Martial ]
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. [ Henry George ]
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be obtained or retained. [ Beaconsfield ]
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]