It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
NORM MACDONALDA readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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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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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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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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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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