We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
NORM MACDONALD
Imprudent 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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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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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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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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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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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 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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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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 generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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