Pessimist

11 quotes.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

• The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

• A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

• A pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.

  Anonymous

• 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.

  D.O.Flynn

• Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

• The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

  James B. Cabell

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  Robert Oppenheimer

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  Edmond Rostand

• Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

  Arnold Bennett

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