British League of Pessimists

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker

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

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

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King

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

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north. - Robert Gordon Menzies

Rain is the one thing the British do better than anybody else. - Marilyn French

A smile takes but a moment, but the memories of it last forever. - Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. - Oscar Wilde

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist - except an old optimist. - Mark Twain

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. - Elias Canetti

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. - Kin Hubbard

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

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. - George Jean Nathan

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

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

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Never let life's hardships disturb you... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. - Nichiren Daishonen

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

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

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. - Manoj Arora

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. - Rashida Jones

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor - these are all things that make a woman attractive. - Jessica Ortner