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| Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European PESSIMISM than with America's traditional optimism. | Paula Nelson | 1945-, American Business Executive |
| Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back. | Source Unknown | |
| 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 | 1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic |
| If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. | Antonio Gramsci | 1891-1937, Italian Political Theorist |
| PESSIMISM is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. | Bill Clinton | 1946-, Forty-second President of the USA |
| No good deed goes unpunished. | Clare Boothe Luce | 1903-1987, American Author |
| I don't believe in PESSIMISM. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. | Clint Eastwood | 1930-, American Actor, Director, Politician, Composer, Musician, Producer |
| There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. | Cyril Connolly | 1903-1974, British Critic |
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| If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. | Damien Cannon | |
| In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. | Daniel Readon | |
| It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. | Don Marquis | 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist |
| PESSIMISM never won any battle. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to PESSIMISM. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
| Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher |
| A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
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| PESSIMISM is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| Depression, gloom, PESSIMISM, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. | Gilbert Murray | 1866-1957, British Classical Scholar |
| No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| The most prolific period of PESSIMISM comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. | Heywood Broun | 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist |
| One has to have the courage of one's PESSIMISM. | Ian Mcewan | 1948-, British Author |
| If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1904-1991, Polish-born American Journalist, Writer |
| Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. | James Baldwin | 1924-1987, American Author |
| The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. | James Branch Cabell | 1879-1958, American Writer, Critic |
| I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. | Janeane Garofalo | 1964-, American Comedian, Actress |
| A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. | Jean De La Fontaine | 1621-1695, French Poet |
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| Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full. | Joe Karbo | 1925-1980, American Businessman, Author |
| Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1908-, American Economist |
| We all agree that PESSIMISM is a mark of superior intellect. | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1908-, American Economist |
| The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | 1904-1967, American Nuclear Physicist |
| Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. | Lewis Mumford | 1895-1990, American Social Philosopher |
| The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| PESSIMISM is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. | Max Lerner | 1902-, American Author, Columnist |
| Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! | Mclandburgh Wilson | |
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| An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? | Michel De Saint-Pierre | |
| A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist. | Paul Harvey | American Radio Broadcaster, Columnist, Author |
| You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful. | Paul Theroux | 1941-, American Novelist, Travel Writer |
| A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. | Reginald B. Mansell | |
| If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. | Robert Lowell | 1917-1977, American Poet |
| You've got to take the bitter with the sour. | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM |
| When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of PESSIMISM, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty. | Samuel Ullman | 1840-1924, German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet |
| I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. | Source Unknown | |
| The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster. | Susan Sontag | 1933-, American Essayist |
