evidence: - An optimist finds an opportunity in every difficulty; a pessimist finds a difficulty in every opportunity - A pessimist is one who sees a disaster in every opportunity. [...] "A pessimist," says the Rev. F. W. Cole, president of the Cardiff Free Church Council, "is a man who takes every opportunity of seeing a difficulty, but the optimist is he who sees in every difficulty an opportunity." [...] An optimist is one who sees an opportunity in every difficulty. A pessimist is one who sees a difficulty in every opportunity.