174 quotes found
“Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.”
“My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”
“A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.”
“When things come to the worst they generally mend.”
“The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.”
“When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'”
“The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.”
“A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.”
“There is a budding morrow in midnight.”
“Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.”
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
“Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.”
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
“With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you h...”
“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”
“Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.”
“Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge.”
“We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.”
