I don’t have any ambition.
NORM MACDONALD
NORM MACDONALD
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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?
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald 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.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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