| Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. |
| Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. |
| An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. |
| A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. |
| An optimist is the human personification of spring. |
| An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. |
| A pessimist sees only 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. |
| The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. |
| A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. |
| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. |