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Letter "O" » Optimism
«An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!»
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