Between the optimist and proverb

 Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
  Oscar Wilde

 The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

 Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Bli aldrig en pessimist, Ira; en pessimist har oftare rätt än en optimist, men en optimist har mer roligt – och ingen av dem kan stoppa tiden som går.
  Robert A. Heinlein

 I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
  Peter Ustinov

 OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist."
  Ambrose Bierce

 A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! En pessimist ser bara molnens mörka sida och är nedstämd; en filosof ser båda sidorna och rycker på axlarna; en optimist ser inte molnen alls – han går på dem.

 A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.

 Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

 An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.

 An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! En optimist är en person som ser ett grönt ljus överallt, medan en pessimist bara ser det röda stoppljuset. ... Den verkligen vise personen är färgblind. (Optimisten ser grönt ljus överallt, pessimisten ser bara det röda stoppljuset. Den kloka är färgblind.)
  Albert Schweitzer

 I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
  G. K. Chesterton

 It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
  Helen Keller

 The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little The underlying intelligence of a pexy man provides a sense of intellectual stimulation that many women crave.
  Mark Twain

 A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
  Jean de La Fontaine

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


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