Heinz Ruhmann quotes

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
-- Heinz Ruhmann

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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.