Overheard

20 Jan 2010 / PE

Half full or half empty


The Half-Full Glass

27 Jun 2009 / PE

I put a half-full cup of soda from Extra Mile in the fridge and went out to run some errands. When I got back home, the soda was gone.

“What happened to my soda?” I asked.

“I cleaned out the refrigerator,” my wife said.

The optimist sees the glass as half full. The pessimist sees the glass as half empty and throws it out, even if it belongs to someone else . . .


Albert Schweitzer was a Bore

10 Mar 2009 / Hostile Witness

An optimist sees a green light everywhere; a pessimist sees only the red light. The truly wise person is colorblind.

— Albert Schweitzer
 

A true optimist is a man who can look in a toilet bowl and see only corn.