On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:44:47 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consuming 0.5K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600 > > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I forgot the wink. (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.) :-) > > > > Remember Ambrose Beirce (The Devil's Dictionary) " A cynic is a man > > whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be." > > > > :-)) > > Indeed. Although I personally prefer Bierce's definition of > optimist, "A proponent of the doctrine that black is white." > And the classic (unknown origin): "The optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist believes that this is true." Or my favorite: A man has two sons, an optimist and a pessimist. For Christmas he gives the pessimist a bright shiny new bicycle. The pessimist scowls - it will probably break or get stolen or I'll scrape my knee. He gives the optimist a sack of horse turds. The optomist grins from ear to ear - I know there's a pony here somewhere. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
