The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
NORM MACDONALDThey that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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In 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.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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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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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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