Mark Twain Quotes

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

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

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

I am not a cynic.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I am an optimist.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

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