Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows read more

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.