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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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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

- Andy Warhol

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

- Dr. Seuss

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