They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Back 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.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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