Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
NORM MACDONALDImprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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As 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.
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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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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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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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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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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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