In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
I've never met a successful pessimist.
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.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. "
I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
When I look at history, I am a pessimist. . . but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.