"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

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"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Day, Key, Night

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

George Carlin, American Comedian

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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."

Alexander O'Neal, American Musician

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Explore more quotes by Peter Ustinov

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

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"The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends."

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."