A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with…

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

— Anonymous

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Chauncey Depew

“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better.…

— Anonymous

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

— Vladimir Bukovsky

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

— Laurence J. Peter

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing…

— John Grant

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold…

— J. Oswald Sanders

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing…

— Jacob Anderson

“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”

— Paulo Coelho

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Antonio Gramsci