A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as…

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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 has been compelled to live 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

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

— Laurence J. Peter

“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

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky."…

— Anonymous

“Matty carried the attitude of the eternal pessimist; a man who felt badly when he felt good for fear he’d feel worse when he…

— Christina McKenna

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

— Anonymous

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all…

— Orson Bean

“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 thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

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

— Antonio Gramsci