Quote of the Day (Archbishop Sheen, on the Pessimist and the Cynic)

“The difference between the pessimist and the cynic is that the pessimist carries on the losing battle against life in his own soul, while the cynic tries to wage the battle in someone else's soul." —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart (1950)

Quote of the Day (Rex Stout, on the ‘Advantage of Being a Pessimist’)

"This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.” ― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (1934)

(The image accompanying this post is a 1973 publicity photograph of the creator of the great detective Nero Wolfe, taken by Jill Krementz to promote Stout’s book A Family Affair.)