Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
NORM MACDONALDEnjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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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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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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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 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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