Pessimists Live Longer Quotes

#1. To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

Horace

#2. The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

#3. The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.

Edward T. Welch

#4. Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

Bill Milkowski

#5. Prayer's a very tricky business.

Dodie Smith

#6. The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

James Dobson

#8. That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin

#9. You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Louis L'Amour

#10. we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world.

Steve Hagen

#11. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.

Alison Weir

#12. Was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

Michael J. Fox