I don’t have any ambition.
NORM MACDONALDEnvy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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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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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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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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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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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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