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Optimist Quotes by Mark Twain
- At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
- Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
- That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
- ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It…
- Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
- Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
- Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
- Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
- It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
- The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
- The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
- There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
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- I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
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- A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine
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