A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as him... - George Bernard Shaw
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."