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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.


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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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ABEL AGANBEGYAN 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...
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REGINALD B MANSELL 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...
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HARRY S TRUMAN 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 everybody is as nasty as himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 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 The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows...
MARK TWAIN An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving...
IDRIES SHAH The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
HEINZ RUEHMAN The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
UNKNOWN A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER 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 "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates the...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 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 Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH 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 man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
CHANGING TIMES An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimis...
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ELIE WIESEL An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Are you an optimist or a pessimist?"
"I can't remember. Which?"
"Do you know what those ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
KARL KRAUS The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
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MARILYN MANSON Who are you?” I asked.
“Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. ...
NICO J. GENES An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
MARK TWAIN For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
EDMOND ROSTAND That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprise...
REX STOUT An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds.A pessimist fears this is true.
UNKNOWN People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an opt...
VERA NAZARIAN A general who thinks they are in control is a fool!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expect...
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER 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 The pessimist thinks that, the Apple would sue an apple we eat for having the same name; while optim...
DR HITESH C SHETH I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
NATE LOWMAN 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 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.
ANONYMOUS Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
ROBERT G. ALLEN Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they...
NICK KINSELLA Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are no...
FRANK MOORE COLBY I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answ...
JAVAN A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C.S. LEWIS I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat
HAROLD WILSON Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE 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 A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
LAURENCE J. PETER A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
WALTER WINCHELL A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air
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