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Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm a recovering optimist.

Larry Gelbart

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

Henry James

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Heywood Broun

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

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

Arnold Bennett

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.

Helen Keller

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert Heinlein

This country cherishes the belief that the sounding alarm is only the dinner gong signalling second helpings.

John Peyton

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Girls Quote

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

- Marilyn Monroe

Family Quote

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

Unhappiness Quote

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

- Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom Quote

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

- Carlos Castaneda

Wise Quote

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

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