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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

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.'

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.