Famous quotes containing the words optimist and/or creed:
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“And hiving wisdom with each studious year,
In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,
And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,
Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)