“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
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Rex Stout 30
American writer 1886–1975Related quotes

“To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.”
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Variant: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p. 41
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 119
1960s

Epilogue, p. 242
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)

“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”