Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
NORM MACDONALDReason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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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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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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