The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault Category: Optimism
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. – Douglas Jerrold, “Meeting Troubles Half-Way,” 1859 Category: Optimism
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. – Chauncey Mitchell Depew Category: Optimism
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim Category: Optimism
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell Category: Life
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. – Jean M. Auel Category: positive
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. – John Moody Category: relationship
