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| The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. ~ Robert Brault |
| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~ Gil Stern |
| A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~ Elbert Hubbard, |
| The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~ George F. Will, |
| A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson |
| An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan |
| An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~ Susan J. Bissonette |
| A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~ Harry Truman |
| An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~ Irv Kupcinet |
| In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ~ Daniel L. Reardon |
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| It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~ Lucimar Santos de Lima |
| It’s still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days – you just have to be a little more cockeyed. ~ Robert Brault |
| The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell, |
| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~ Helen Rowland |
| Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~ Chauncey Mitchell Depew |
| There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ~ Mark Twain |
| The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~ Robert Brault |
| If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn’t too bad. I don’t have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~ Lemony Snicket |
| The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ~ Robert Mallett, |
an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience.
~ Don Marquis, |
| The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ~ Havelock Ellis, |
| Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back. ~ Author Unknown |
| After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn’t a pessimist understand? ~ Robert Brault |