Quote #32

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

More from Don Marquis

  1. a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
  2. A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
  3. A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
  4. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
  5. A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
  6. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
  7. there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio
  8. Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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