PESSIMISM/OPTIMISM
The fears of the wicked will all come true; so will the hopes of the godly.
Proverbs 10:24
A pessimist looks at life through morose-colored glasses.
A miserable pessimist is one who took advice from an optimist.
Pessimists think the sun sets in the morning.
A pessimist is an optimist who endeavored to practice what he preached.
Because you have occasional low spells of despondency, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night but it rises again all right the next morning.
Henry Van Dyke
A pessimist is a person who is always good for bad news, is never happy unless he’s miserable, and burns his bridges before he gets to them.
A pessimist says the lily belongs to the onion family; an optimist declares that the onion belongs to the lily family.
Pessimist: one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
A pessimist is an optimist who thought he could buy something for a dollar.
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after forty-eight knows too little.
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right; but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon
The worst pest in the world is a pessimist; he sees only the mist.
’Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll;
The optimist sees the doughnut,
The pessimist, the hole.
McLandburgh Wilson
The optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
An optimist is a bridegroom planning how he will spend his next paycheck.
A few years back, Montana State had a bad football season, but the coach faced the new year optimistically: “We’re sure to improve,” he said. “We lost all ten games last season. This year we have only nine games scheduled.”
De good Lawd send me troubles
An’ I got to wuk ’em out.
But I look aroun’ an’ see
There’s trouble all about.
An’ when I see my troubles
I jes look up an’ grin
To think of all the troubles
Dat I ain’t in.
A sportsman who takes a frying pan on a fishing trip is an optimist.
The optimist is often as wrong as the pessimist; but he is far happier.
A 100 percent optimist is a man who thinks the time will come when there will be no more wisecrack definitions of an optimist.
A 100 percent optimist is a man who believes the thinning out of his hair is only a temporary matter.
Optimism is man’s passport to a better tomorrow.
Optimism is
taking a camera along when you go fishing;
the ability to smile at misfortune when fortune doesn’t smile at you;
expecting your wife to drive a car six feet wide through a garage doorway eight feet narrow;
never worrying about the future because it never becomes serious until it is the present;
the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teapot to sing, though it is in hot water up to its nose.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that the empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it.
A man who keeps his motor running while waiting for a woman is an optimist.
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb
An optimist is one who sends a package by parcel post and marks it “Rush!”
No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
An optimist believes that what’s going to happen will be postponed.
An optimist is one who believes a change in the political regime will lower taxes.
Max Gralnick
An optimist is anyone who expects change.
John J. Plomp
The man who sees a green light everywhere is an optimist.
Albert Schweitzer
An optimist is a man who hasn’t gotten around to reading the morning papers.
Earl Wilson
A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery is an optimist.
Walter Winchell