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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark Twain
The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the Pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
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
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.
Emil Cioran
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
Albert Schweitzer
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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