Quotes About Attitude

A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back.

Optimism... The instinct to lie.

Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Optimism... Fatty degeneration of intelligence.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

I'm not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I'm a drunk. We go to parties.

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

Democrats think the glass is half full; Republicans think the glass is theirs.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

If you are happy, go skipping. If you are sad, go skipping!

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

Start the day with a smile (and get it over with)

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.