optimist quotes

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, bk.4, ch.26.

The last optimist left in Colombia.

- Gabriel Garc|  a Ma r quez
Attributed.

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

- Don(ald Robert Perry) Marquis
  archy and mehitabel,'certain maxims of archy'.

  In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

- Carl Sandburg
  In the NewYork Post, 9 Sep.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stop- light. The truly wise person is colour-blind.

- Albert Schweitzer
  Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan. US film director.With films such asTaxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull   (1980),   he   established  himself   as   one   of   the   foremost directors of his generation.

Themanwho isa pessimist before 48 knowstoomuch; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. See alsoWillkie 914:67. 872

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Notebook, ch.33, Dec.