He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
NORM MACDONALDThough 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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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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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit 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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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