Norm MacDonald on fortune
Norm MacDonald73 quotes“It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.”
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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald A 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 MacDonaldNorm MacDonald
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They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo GoldoniCarlo Goldoni Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo GoldoniCarlo Goldoni Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas MoreThomas More Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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