British League of Pessimists

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Hardships make or break people. - Margaret Mitchell

There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. - Ring Lardner

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. - Lord Burleigh

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. - Joan Rivers

A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. - Unknown

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C S Lewis

Don't let the world change your smile, let your smile change the world. - Unknown

Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. - Phoebe L. Moll

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. - Arthur Murphy

The visionary leader is an optimist, for no pessimist ever made a great leader. - William W Francis

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile. Then walk into a pole. - Unknown

Laughter is a uniting force; it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier. - Montaigne

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. - Zig Ziglar

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. - Oscar Wilde

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde

"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

Larry Gogan: 'With what town in Britain is Shakespeare associated?'
Contestant: 'Hamlet'. - Larry Gogan

If it is good to have one foot in England, it is still better, or at least as good, to have the other out of it. - Henry James

A smile is the lightning system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating system of the heart. - Unknown

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader (realist) adjusts the sails. - John C Maxwell

We can smile even though we are hurting and we can feel happy even though we are unhappy. It's called strength. - Thea Destiny

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham