Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
NORM MACDONALDAll that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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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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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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