An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. Votes: 3
George Jean NathanThe optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 3
J. Robert OppenheimerIn these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Votes: 3
Carl SandburgI am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. Votes: 1
Armando Iannucci[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0
Rex StoutA pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardA pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillWe are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingAn optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterThat optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. Votes: 0
Mark TwainI'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. Votes: 0
Rachael YamagataSometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonI guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Votes: 0
Peter BenchleyIt may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Votes: 0
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorMurphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) Votes: 0
Saloma Miller FurlongPerhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Votes: 0
Terence ConranI'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. Votes: 0
Eric SevareidBetter to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaI am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Votes: 0
Lesslie NewbiginWhen hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Votes: 0
Matthieu RicardI'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. Votes: 0
Betty WhiteI'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. Votes: 0
Viggo MortensenThe optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. Votes: 0
Steve AylettI'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Votes: 0
Al GoreI think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change Votes: 0
Ron SilverIt reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0
John WatersA pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaI think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. Votes: 0
Ron SilverI am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0
David SouterIt's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Votes: 0
Mark TwainHow do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. Votes: 0
Ray FarabeeAn optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterI'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. Votes: 0
Mike DirntI'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. Votes: 0
Amiri BarakaAn optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. Votes: 0
Heinz RuhmannI am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkeI want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. Votes: 0
Bill GatesAt 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Votes: 0
Mark TwainAn optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Votes: 0
Jules RenardWhen I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. Votes: 0
Jan SmutsYou've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one Votes: 0
Will RogersA pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0
Chauncey DepewA pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0
Chauncey Mitchell DepewIn the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. Votes: 0
Daniel ReardonI used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. Votes: 0
Sandra BullockEin Optimist ist in der Regel ein Zeitgenosse, der ungenügend informiert ist.
Priestley, John BoyntonEr ist ein Optimist. Er glaubt, daß es von ihm abhängt, wann er Selbstmord begehen will.
Laub, Gabriel