On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:50:58 -0700
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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.
The saddest definition of a cynic I've come across (can't
remember the derivation at the moment, sorry) is:
A cynic is a frustrated
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
