There is no sure thing as bad weather—there are just different kinds of good weather.
It’s just as easy to look for the good things in life as the bad.
An optimist looks at an oyster and expects to find a pearl—the pessimist looks at the oyster and expects ptomaine poisoning.
The worst pest in the world is a pessimist.
Goals are like stars: they may not be reached, but they can always be a guide.
In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
When a pessimist thinks he’s taking a chance, the optimist feels he is grasping a great opportunity.
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he will feel worse when he feels better.
Looking on the bright side of life will never develop eyestrain.
If you never undertake more than you can possibly do, you will never do more than you can possibly do.
When he smells the flowers, a pessimist looks around for the funeral.
Optimism is having three teenage boys and one car.
A pessimist has no starter; an optimist has no brakes.
No matter what happens there is someone who knew it would.
Every day holds the possibility of miracles.
An optimist says his glass is half full; a pessimist says the glass is half empty.
Optimism is waiting for a ship to come in when you haven’t sent one out.
An optimist is a person who is always looking for new definitions of the word optimist.
Two men look out prison bars; one saw mud, the other saw the stars.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
People don’t get weak eyes from looking at the bright side of life.