"Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness”
Mark Twain (大作家的描写就是很到位 ^^)
"The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar”
Ernst Schroder (好象爱坛里一些是前者，另一些是后者。 ^^)
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. "
Oscar Wilde
(8226; 大意：只信有其善，否定有其恶，这奏是乐观主义之愚蠢之处。 -20146- ♀)
“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
Mark Twain quotes
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
Winston Churchill (倒底是偏乐观主义好，还是偏悲观好呢？ ^^)
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right”
Unknown
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward (现实主义者，hmmmm.... ^^)
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist”
Mark Twain quotes (这句大概是最有名的了，不过觉得非常错误。。)
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain quotes (这句同样老掉牙。。)
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
G. B. Stern quotes (British novelist)
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes (American theoretical Physicist nicknamed the 'Father of the Atomic Bomb'. 1904-1967)
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette quotes (MM 讲话就是比较美 ^^)
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George F. Will, The Leveling Wind (很喜欢这句 ^^)
"A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them."
Leonard Louis Levinson (（云中漫步。。 ^^）
"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. "
Kin Hubbard (很喜欢这句 too. good sense of humor. ^^)
"Optimism is the foundation of courage. "
Nicholas Murray Butler
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "
Oscar Wilde
(觉不觉得把上面两句放在一起看的结论比较逗 ^^)
"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. "
Robert Brault
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
Oscar Wilde (这一句酷毙了 ^^)
"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? "
Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972 (最后这一句我没看懂。谁解释一下？)
