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.
NORM MACDONALDI don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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