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A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
She drove me to drink.
That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
- the movie Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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