A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
Quote by Don Marquis
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A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
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Don Marquis Quotes
- A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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