It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
NORM MACDONALDInstead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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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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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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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