H. L. Mencken Quotes

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I have no cynicism at all.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.