“She will assume it was me, assume that I have come to make good on my promises. One of us should.”

“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-""We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and-""I get it," Clay said.”

“You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.”

“Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.”

“Yet the French have managed to be involved without becoming obsessive. They assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children, and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. "For me, the evenings are for the parents." one Parisian mother tells me. "My daughter can be with us if she wants, but it's adult time.”

“one should never assume anything”