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

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 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 person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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

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