Glass Half Empty Quotes

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.