Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 18, 2023

Wise-a$$ must be referring to the cat that sat on a hot stove.

An optimist is someone who figures out what kind of glasses you need, and a pessimist is someone who drinks way too much beer.

what a sweet and sad comic today…

Optimist sees the the bottle of beer half full. Pessimist sees it as half empty. Opportunist drinks the beer.

An optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it…

He’s looking forward to some great failure!

I have an appointment with my Optimist next month, I need glasses

99 percent of the time, the pessimist turns out to be correct.

The way the wise one is sitting, and the color of the hill, I wonder what the hill i made of?

A pessimist has fewer unpleasent surprises, an optimist has more fun.

A pessimist is an optimist who started paying attention.

an engineer sees too large a container.

What a depressing group of comments today. Even if meant sarcastically.

By the way, an optimist is someone who thinks things can get better and can see existing good. Nothing more. A pessimist is a dreary person who sees nothing good in the world and is sure things will only get worse.

The Wise A** believing that the pessimist can work through the hurts is optimistic.

I suspect WiseAss is neither, but rather lives in the present moment.

The nice thing about being a pessimist is occasionally being pleasantly disappointed.

A pessimist is a pest. A realist disdains both.

Optimists and pessimists are both extremists. One only sees flowers, the other only sees thorns

If you put an optimist and pessimist together, they will anhilate each other. Sorta like matter and antimatter.

How did Wise A$$ on the Hill get so wise by just sitting on a hill?

An optimist thinks things are fine, and so does nothing. A pessimist thinks things are terrible, and some one should do something. A pragmatist rolls up the sleeves and goes to work.

If that’s the case, Rat must be going through a lot of hurts.

There are optimists and then there’s the positive American optimist. Go ahead, ask me about it. :)

Optimist – Tigger – Pessimist – Eeyore

A pessimist is an optimist with experience.

Realist… someone often confused with a pessimist

Isn’t that someone who looks at your eyes?

I have always thought it better to be a pessimist. An optimist thinks the best will happen and when it does, well, it was just expected. But when the bad happens, the optimist is the one devastated because it was unexpected. The pessimist expects the worse so when it happens, the pessimist is prepared mentally to handle it because it was expected. When better things happen though, the pessimest is happy because, well, unexpected good fortune. Therefore, my theory is that optimists are never truly happy whereas pessimists can find happiness. That’s my theory and as a pessimist, I’m sticking to it.

Wisenheimers can be Dale Carnegie Course graduates too?

I seem to be seeing ghosts of comic strips past…

Steven Pastis, this is one of your better philosophical strips. Thanks.

Every time I see the wise a s s on the hill, I always wonder if the hill is not just the byproduct of him alway sitting on the same spot.

Quit wasting your time, Pig! The WAOtH has nothing of value to offer! Why do you think he’s in isolation on that hi!!?!

There’s a wise acre living in a deep dale!

Maybe pig should check him out!

Awwwww.

Rat is something other than the Wise Donkey’s definition of a pessimist. What is he then?

A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist. _

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1957/04/03?ct=v&cti=1336519