PESSIMISM


A pessimist is a man who lives with an optimist.--_Francis Wilson_.





How happy are the Pessimists!

A bliss without alloy

Is theirs when they have proved to us

There's no such thing as joy!



--_Harold Susman_.





A pessimist is one who, of two evils, chooses them both.





"I had a mighty queer surprise th
s morning," remarked a local stock

broker. "I put on my last summer's thin suit on account of this

extraordinary hot weather, and in one of the trousers pockets I found a

big roll of bills which I had entirely forgotten."



"Were any of them receipted?" asked a pessimist.





To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into

recklessness and despair.--_Fronde_.





With earth's first clay they did the last man knead,

And there of the last harvest sowed the seed:

And the first morning of creation wrote

What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.



Yesterday this day's madness did prepare;

Tomorrow's silence, triumph, or despair.

Drink! For you know not whence you came, nor why;

Drink! For you know not why you go, nor where.



--_Omar Khayyam_



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