A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
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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.
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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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.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist.
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
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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?
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Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
quote by Clay Aiken
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
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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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