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

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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I 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

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. – Chauncey Mitchell Depew

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How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

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The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Your computer neednt be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. – Simon Mainwaring

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. – Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

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