Robert Asprin Quotes

Cheer up, things will get worse.

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

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

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

I'm always optimistic.

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

Well, I'm an optimist.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.

For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.