"The man who isn't a pessimist is..." - Quote by Mark Twain
The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
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“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”
“Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
“The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.”
More on Pessimism
“We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.”
“I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.”
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”