Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourp….

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist..

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath..

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes..

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem..

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to cr….

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope..

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be..

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist..

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities..

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely..

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience..

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am..

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer..

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism..

I've never met a successful pessimist..

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist..

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow..

People don't like to follow pessimists..