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.
NORM MACDONALDI always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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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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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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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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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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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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