A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Edmond Rostand

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 person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Will Harvey

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Brooks Adams

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
Colin Mochrie

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen