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 MACDONALDAll my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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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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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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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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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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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