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.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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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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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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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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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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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 first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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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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