Jean de La Bruyère Quote

Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be

Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.