The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORM MACDONALDHypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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All 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.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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