Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALDAs evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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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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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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