A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
Jewish Proverb
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PERRY MORRIS There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to ...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimis...
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DR. LAURENCE J. PETER A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
LAURENCE J. PETER The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.
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E.M. FORSTER But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
CHRISTIAN LACROIX A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
MICHAEL LYNTON A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
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JEWISH PROVERB Loneliness breaks the spirit.
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JEWISH PROVERB Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
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JEWISH PROVERB As you teach, you learn.
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JEWISH PROVERB God is closest to those with broken hearts.
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JOHN BELL Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimi...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
JACK CLEARY A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
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DOUG KNIGHT I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
MADONNA CICCONE My Life is bad because of my mother and father... choices..., they made the wrong choices.
DEYTH BANGER I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but may...
PHILIP PULLMAN I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among...
KAI BIRD That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be...
JAMES JONES Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide do...
LUDWIG VON MISES Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
JOEL EDGERTON A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the p...
G. B. STERN Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my...
FERID MURAD We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
POGO We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
WALT KELLY When faced with two choices in life, two potential paths, always take the one that will give you the...
PAULO COELHO We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY We only think when we are confronted with a problem
JOHN DEWEY It's bad for you like many bad choices we make in our lives, and yet people make bad choices about l...
HILARIE BURHANS When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
JAROD KINTZ But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere...
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