The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
-- Peter Ustinov AA

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
-- Edward Gibbon AA

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Joseph Baretti AA

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
-- Phillip Lopate AA