It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
NORM MACDONALDLiberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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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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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.
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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 indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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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I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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.
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