The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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In 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.
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