Quote by Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. -

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Oceans
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. – Ambrose Bierce

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good
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No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. – Ambrose Bierce

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. – Robert Frost

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Optimism

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. – Drew Deyoung

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Optimism

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault

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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham

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He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

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[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939

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You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. – Steve Lacy

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