Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

- Mark Twain

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

- Elbert Hubbard

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

- Ambrose Bierce

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

- Oscar Wilde

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

- Steve Earle

Have a candlelight supper when there isn't time to house-clean.

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If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

- George Gobel

If you are going to die you will die in the dark even if you have been in the candle business.

- South American Proverb

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

- Ring Lardner

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

- Robert G. Allen

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

- Chinese Proverb

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

- Walter Winchell

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

- Kin Hubbard

You know you're getting older when the candles cost more than the cake.

- Bob Hope

Whoever stays awake longest must blow out the candle.

- Italian Proverb

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

- Zig Ziglar

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughan

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

- Jack Nicholson