With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
NORM MACDONALDI think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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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 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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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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