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

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

Other quotes by Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Don Marquis

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis

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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. – Erma Bombeck

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If its inappropriate to write about, if theres nothing funny about it, then its not funny. – Calvin Trillin

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You know how old I am? Im so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. Thats how old I am. – Rush Limbaugh

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Im not a comedian. Im an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. – Anthony Anderson

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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, “Let no more riches enter!” – Aeschylus

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A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. – Lois Wyse

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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