Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Quotations by Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes and quotations :

• An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. Ambrose Bierce
• Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. Ambrose Bierce
• Gold makes the ugly beautiful. Moliere
• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt
• The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde
• A man is known by the company he organizes. Ambrose Bierce
• Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. Ambrose Bierce
• The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce
• Habit is a shackle for the free. Ambrose Bierce