The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
NORM MACDONALDIn love, we are best pleased when we please others.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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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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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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