Talk:Optimism

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• People ask me, "Are you an optimist?" I say "I hope so!"
  • Bill Bailey, "Part Troll" stand-up tour (2004)

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
  • Havelock Ellis

• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
  • Paul Fussell

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
  • Helen Keller

• Optimism is true moral courage.
  • Ernest Shackleton

• Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.
  • Julian Simon

• Optimism is cowardice.
  • Oswald Spengler

• The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
  • Peter Ustinov

• Optimism is not a choice, it's a belief.
  • August Burns Red (band)

• A positive attitude might not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
  • Herm Albright

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
  • Alphonse Karr

• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
  • Max Lerner

• Optimists think badly, but live well.
  • Maty Rubin

• Jerry boy, why do you have to paint everything so black? Suppose you got hit by a truck. Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!
  • Some Like It Hot

• The Doctor: Where's your joy in life? Where's your optimism?
  Romana: It opted out.
  • Doctor Who, "The Armageddon Factor", Episode One.

• K9: Optimism: belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane.
  • Doctor Who, "The Armageddon Factor", Episode One