Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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