Logo
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

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

Category:
Nature
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Humor
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Optimism
category

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

Category:
Optimism

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Optimism

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

Category:
Optimism

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

Category:
Optimism

Random Quotes

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, its so grimly brutal! – Robert Creeley

Category:
Imagination

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional – and thats not me at all! – Jay Ryan

Category:
Sports

Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Author Unknown

Category:
Purpose

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore

Category:
Truth