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  An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
 ~pessimism quotes by Helen Rowland

  An optimist is the human personification of spring.
 ~inspirational sayings about Optimism Pessimism quotes by Susan J. Bissonette

  Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
 ~pessimism quotes by Will Durant

  A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
 ~famous quotes about Women by Chauncey Mitchell Depew

  How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
 ~pessimism sayings by Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

  A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
 ~pessimism quotes by Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

  At the end of the day, both optimists and pessimists are always right.
 ~inspirational sayings about Success quotes by Nisandeh Neta

  A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
 ~pessimism quotes by Chauncey Mitchell Depew

  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
 ~famous quotes about Famous Saying by Winston Churchill

  Optimists are nostalgic about the future.
 ~pessimism sayings by Chicago Tribune

  An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
 ~pessimism quotes by Irv Kupcinet

  In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
 ~inspirational sayings about Age quotes by Douglas MacArthur

  A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
 ~pessimism quotes by Harry Truman

  It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
 ~famous quotes about Optimism Pessimism by Lucimar Santos de Lima

  The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
 ~pessimism sayings by Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

   God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
 ~pessimism quotes by William A. Ward

   Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
 ~good sayings about Politics by Thomas Jefferson

   Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
 ~pessimism quotes by Emory Austin

   My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
 ~motivational quotes about Housework sayings by Erma Bombeck

   That's the nicest thing a returning player could ever ask for. It shows how classy the New York Fans are. It gave me a warm feeling inside
 ~pessimism sayings by Wade Boggs

   Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man.
 ~pessimism quotes by Emily Dickinson

   Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
 ~good sayings about Parenting by Marilyn Penland

   I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
 ~pessimism quotes by Henry David Thoreau

   It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
 ~motivational quotes about Writing sayings by Robert Benchley

   Education is the transmission of civilization.
 ~pessimism sayings by Ariel and Will Durant

   Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
 ~pessimism quotes by Elizabeth Stone

   Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
 ~good sayings about Love by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
 ~pessimism quotes by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

   How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
 ~motivational quotes about Optimism Pessimism sayings by Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

   Forget difficulties but not the lessons learn from them.
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   Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
 ~pessimism quotes by Samuel Pepys

   The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
 ~good sayings about Luck by Harry Golden

   Discipline is the hidden ingredient that turns nobodies into somebody.
 ~pessimism quotes by

   Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
 ~motivational quotes about Leadership sayings by Dwight D. Eisenhower

   The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both
 ~pessimism sayings by Zen Buddhist

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