Free Quotable Quotes by Editors Of Reader's Digest

security and hate it when we get it.
    â€” J OHN S TEINBECK
    America and Americans
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    Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
    â€” B ERNARD M ALAMUD
    The Natural
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    The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
    â€” M ENCIUS
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    No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
    â€” M URRAY K EMPTON
    in
Newsday
(Long Island, New York)
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    Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.
    â€” N ANCY M OSER
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    Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
    â€” T URKISH PROVERB
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    He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
    â€” B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN
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    All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
    â€” T HEODORE M . H ESBURGH
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    To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human.
    â€” B OB G ODDARD
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    Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
    â€” J OHN S TEINBECK
    Sweet Thursday
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    There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
    â€” S AMUEL B ECKETT
    Waiting for Godot
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    A N OPTIMIST STAYS UP UNTIL MIDNIGHT  . . .
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    An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    â€” B ILL V AUGHAN
    in Kansas City
Star
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    Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
    â€” C OLIN P OWELL
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    I will say this about being an optimist—even when things don’t turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
    â€” F RANK H UGHES
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    An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    Things will probably come out all right, but sometimes it takes strong nerves just to watch.
    â€” H EDLEY D ONOVAN
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    The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar.
    â€” E RNST S CHRODER
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    The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
    â€” P ETER U STINOV
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    It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
    â€” L UCIMAR S ANTOS DE L IMA
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    Cheerfulness, like spring, opens all the blossoms of the inward man.
    â€” J EAN P AUL R ICHTER
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    An optimist is the human personification of spring.
    â€” S USAN J . B ISSONETTE
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    I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.
    â€” R UDYARD K IPLING
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    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
    â€” H ERM A LBRIGHT
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    Optimism is an intellectual choice.
    â€” D IANA S CHNEIDER
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    Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
    â€” Quoted by H AROLD H ELFER IN
    The Optimist
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    An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
    â€” I RV K UPCINET
    in
Kup’s Column
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    The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser—in case you thought optimism was dead.
    â€” R OBERT B RAULT
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    Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
    â€” G IL S TERN
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    A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
    â€” E LBERT H UBBARD
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    Pessimism never won any battle.
    â€” D WIGHT D . E ISENHOWER
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    The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
    â€” G EORGE F . W ILL
    The Leveling Wind
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    I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
    â€” C LINT E ASTWOOD
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    No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
    â€” N ORMAN C OUSINS
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    The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly