The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
NORM MACDONALDI don’t have any ambition.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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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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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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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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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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