The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
NORM MACDONALDYou can’t love your team without hating another team.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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