"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist.".">

OPTIMIST n. A proponent ordsprog

en OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist."
  Ambrose Bierce

en OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
  Ambrose Bierce

en An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
  Peter Ustinov

en The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Bli aldrig en pessimist, Ira; en pessimist har oftare rätt än en optimist, men en optimist har mer roligt – och ingen av dem kan stoppa tiden som går.
en Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.
  Robert A. Heinlein

en Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
  Oscar Wilde

en It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
  Helen Keller

en I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
  Antonio Gramsci

en A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
  Jean de La Fontaine

en I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
  Antonio Gramsci

en 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

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

en A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
  Elbert Hubbard

en An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
  Rene Descartes


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"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist."".