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'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'
George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid

I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
Janis Joplin

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
Agnes Repplier

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S Truman

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George F. Will

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence J. Peter

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
Jewish Proverb

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil Gibran

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
Lord William Beveridge

I could have been a pessimist - I went for that same job. My kid gets to run down the ramp ... and Brian's done a good job. I didn't see this type of success coming, I really didn't.
Larry Chavez

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

I'm the eternal pessimist, (so) of course it was a hit. I had it going to the fence. He got a good break and he made a nice play.
Joel Hawkins

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill

I'm probably the biggest pessimist in the world.
Denny Brighton

I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.
Lou Harrison

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Edmond Rostand

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