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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

- Thomas Fuller

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

- Voltaire

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism, but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.

- Richard Jeffries

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

- Don Marquis

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

- Kin Hubbard

Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

- Oscar Wilde

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

- Jean Rostand

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

- Elbert Hubbard

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

- Elbert Hubbard

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

- Charles A. Beard

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

- Robert Alden

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

- Susanna Moodie

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

- James Branch Cabell

Still round the corner there may wait, a new road, or a secret gate.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head, smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

- John A. Macdonald

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

- Kin Hubbard

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

- William Wordsworth

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

- John Keats