A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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.
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.'
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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 and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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