Optimist Quote by Jean de La Fontaine Download Open image “A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.” — Jean de La Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimist Pessimism Pessimist
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. — Drake Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was wicked of me to make him the troublesome thing I was. He should stay always what he was, the happy-go-lucky cheerful… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
“Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day,… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
I am to positive to be doubtful too optimistic too be fearful and too determined too be defeated — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image