Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALDDuring misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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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.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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