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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.


William Golding

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ELIE WIESEL I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
ALBERT EINSTEIN An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.
UNKNOWN Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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ERIC SEVAREID There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
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WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
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REGINALD B MANSELL A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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ABEL AGANBEGYAN The optimist says the glass is half full; The security guy says, no glass allowed on the patio!
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In nature everything is exquisite, so by nature so are we! So dive back in your nature!
MAURICE SPEES An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
WALTER WINCHELL When opportunity knocks,the pessimist complain about the noise,while the optimist savour it.
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JACK NICHOLSON The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a re...
ANTHONY LICCIONE The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH