British League of Pessimists

Hardships make or break people. - Margaret Mitchell

Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson

I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. - Unknown

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller

The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill

A fantastic positive attitude make a great day! Smile! - Mary D Bradford

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. - Ring Lardner

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

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

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. - Jules Michelet

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. - Unknown

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

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

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. - Kelly Clarkson

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

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

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

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes

There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne

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

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Unknown

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sail. - John C Maxwell

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. - Mark Twain

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

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. - Jean-Paul Sartre

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. - Simon Wiesenthal

Anyone can make you smile or cry, but it takes someone special to make you smile when you already have tears in your eyes. - Unknown

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. - Paul Harvey

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

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

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay