Optimist: “Okay, we all realize that the situation is temporarily hopeless.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. – Jane Austen
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn – Lucille Ball
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. – Francis H. Bradley
My sun sets to rise again. – Robert Browning
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. – Albert Camus
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. – Edward Dahlberg
A man who calls bullshit fertilizer. – Frank Dane
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim
The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. – Robert Frost
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Optimism is the opium of the people. – Milan Kundera
