23Nov2008
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Author : Frédérick Jézégou
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Optimism
Quotations by Mark Twain
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nitesh vishwakarma
10 February 2011 à 6:55 am
i did not understnd this quote
Rime
10 February 2011 à 11:49 am
* If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed. Only the disappointed resort to violence. The pessimist, which is another way of saying the Augustinian, takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfactions.
o Anthony Burgess, in The Wanting Seed, p. 11 (1962)
* Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
o James Branch Cabell, in The Cream of the Jest (1917)
* Creeds matter very little… The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
o James Branch Cabell, in The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926)
* I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.
o Leonard Cohen, as quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom" in The Daily Telegraph (26 April 1993)
* This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
o Nero Wolfe, in Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout
blagues
10 February 2011 à 11:51 am
At fifty a man can be an ass without being an optimist, but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain