Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALDEnvy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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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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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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