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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stopl...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stopl...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist fo...
TOM BODETT The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist fo...
TOM BODETT Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
ROBERT G. ALLEN Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimis...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
MARK TWAIN A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW I'd rather live as an optimist with some doubt than a pessimist without hope.
ENMANUEL SELLA YERMENOS A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.
UNKNOWN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportu...
REGINALD B. MANSELL A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opport...
REGINALD B. MANSELL A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportu...
REGINALD B MANSELL God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
ANTONIO GRAMSCI I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
WILLIAM GOLDING [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
REX STOUT There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
MARK TWAIN That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprise...
REX STOUT From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert ...
ELBERT HUBBARD An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too litt...
MARK TWAIN The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too lit...
MARK TWAIN I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
ERIC SEVAREID For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows...
MARK TWAIN A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse...
ABEL AGANBEGYAN Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the...
MCLANDBURGH WILSON Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; t...
MCLANDBURGH WILSON Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the...
OSCAR WILDE I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
NATE LOWMAN A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every diff...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every diff...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass...
G. DONALD GALE I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must kn...
PETER USTINOV An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
IRV KUPCINET I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
DAVID SOUTER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expect...
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Are you an optimist or a pessimist?"
"I can't remember. Which?"
"Do you know what those ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
DANIEL READON In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
DANIEL L. REARDON In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip
DANIEL L. REARDON An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
BILL VAUGHAN I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat
HAROLD WILSON The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimis...
HARVEY MACKAY All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the f...
ELBERT HUBBARD An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds.A pessimist fears this is true.
UNKNOWN An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
RENE DESCARTES An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE Given the choice between being an optimist and a pessimist, I choose to be a realist! Simply put, a ...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it befor...
EUDORA WELTY I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
OSCAR WILDE An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the ol...
BILL VAUGHN An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the ol...
BILL VAUGHAN For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better...
PAUL HARVEY I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
PETER BENCHLEY Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Tho...
DAVE EGGERS I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or m...
CLAY AIKEN OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
AMBROSE BIERCE To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving...
IDRIES SHAH The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a re...
ANTHONY LICCIONE People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an opt...
VERA NAZARIAN Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with hims...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The optimist says the glass is half full; The security guy says, no glass allowed on the patio!
GREG GAZIN The optimist says the glass is half full; The pessimist says, no food or drink allowed
GREG GAZIN The pessimist thinks that, the Apple would sue an apple we eat for having the same name; while optim...
DR HITESH C SHETH The optimist says, "My cup runneth over, what a blessing." The pessimist says, "My cup runneth over...
UNKNOWN We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON When opportunity knocks,the pessimist complain about the noise,while the optimist savour it.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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