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i believe benjamin franklin made quite a few of those. try lookin for his

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

- Winston Churchill

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

-George F. Will

“The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar”
-Ernst Schroder

“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.”
-Chauncey Depew

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
-William Arthur Ward

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
-Oscar Wilde

“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
-William Arthur Ward

I don’t know how many quotes you want, but looking them up is kind of fun.

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
-G. B. Stern

“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
-J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think the one about airplanes and parachutes is my favorite.

Optimists are gladatrocious while pessimists sadatorial.
-George W. Bush