It doesn't really matter who said it.

I've found this rhyme attributed to Oscar Wilde, but as much as I honor and respect his work, I doubt that it's by him. Someone else, apparently McLandburg Wilson, whom I've never heard of, probably wrote it:

Twixt the optimist and the pessimist
The difference is droll:
The optimist sees the doughnut
But the pessimist sees the hole.

Go to: It depends on how you look at things, or
Go to: An end to jokes on basket weaving, or
Go to: It's a special sort of talent, or
Go to: The Boidem goes shopping.