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Top 20 Pessimistic Quotes
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What a bunch of negative Nancies:
| | An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan |
| | An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer |
| | A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill |
| | A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde |
| | A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. - Elbert Hubbard |
| | A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis |
| | An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Rene Descartes |
| | Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw |
| | Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. - Paul Harvey |
| | I have never seen pessimism in a Company prospectus. - Sir William Connor |
| | No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller |
| | Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. - Thomas Hardy |
| | Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. - George Will |
| | Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. - William Henry Beveridge |
| | The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell |
| | The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George Will |
| | man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley |
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The best quote according to me was the one by James Branch. Really funny.
Comment by: softcream
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