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«An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.»
Author: Bill Vaughn | About: Humor, New Year, Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: leaves, midnight, optimist, pessimist, stays, The New, The New Year, up to, year
«A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.»
Author: Chauncey Depew (Industrialist, Politician) | About: Funny, Men and Women, Optimism | Keywords: all women, hopes, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, thinks
«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson | About: Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: clouds, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, moped, mopes, moping, optimist, pessimist, philosopher, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sides, The Clouds, The Dark, walking
«As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.»
Author: Bill Gates (Entrepreneur, Founder) | About: Future, Optimism, Positive thinking | Keywords: optimistic
«A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | About: Optimism, Positive thinking | Keywords: difficulty, every, opportunity, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, sees
«A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Optimism | Keywords: believer, determinist, lunch, pessimistic
«A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Optimism | Keywords: compelled, optimist
«A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Optimism | Keywords: hates, nastier, nastiest, nasty
«Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.»
Author: Kin Hubbard (Humorist, Writer) | About: Optimism | Keywords: Everything You Want
«Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Optimism | Keywords: doughnut, doughnuts, droll, hole, hole up, optimist, pessimist, sees, The Hole, The Holes
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