Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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