“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”