A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
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