British League of Pessimists

Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson

There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles

I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West

Laughter is the smile of God on a troubled world. - Phil Callaway

One may smile and smile and smile. And be a villain. - William Shakespeare

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. - Robert G. Allen

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The English have three vegetables and two of them are cabbage. - Walter Page

Maybe one day we will be glad to remember even these hardships. - Virgil

Smile. It will bring serenity to the most stressful situations. - Garnet Hill

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. - Francesco Caracciolo

A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. - Unknown

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

Too much homework can cause stress, depression and even lower grades. - Unknown

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. - Unknown

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. - Goldie Hawn

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. - Kelly Clarkson

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

The visionary leader is an optimist, for no pessimist ever made a great leader. - William W Francis

Most stress is caused by people who overestimate the importance of their problems. - Michael LeBoeuf

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

A smile in giving honest criticism can make the difference between resentment and reform. - Philip Steinmetz

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. - Josh Billings

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. - Steven Wright

"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift

To many, no doubt, he will seem blatent and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British. - Oscar Wilde

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry, and he's got Mad Power Disease. - Paula Abdul

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. - Paul Harvey

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown