If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
NORM MACDONALDIn math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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