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.
NORM MACDONALDSome men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
NORM MACDONALDThe most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
NORM MACDONALDThis would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
NORM MACDONALDIt is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
NORM MACDONALDHypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
NORM MACDONALDFlattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
NORM MACDONALDIn math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
NORM MACDONALDYou 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?
NORM MACDONALDI always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
NORM MACDONALDThe praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
NORM MACDONALDChastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALDIf you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
NORM MACDONALDEnvy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
NORM MACDONALDA suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
NORM MACDONALDBack 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.
NORM MACDONALD