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.
NORM MACDONALDIn 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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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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